Upvoted. I hope I didn't come across as blasting you. I agree that hand-coding your own Javascript is the best way to learn, and a front-end developer should kn

Upvoted. I hope I didn't come across as blasting you. I agree that hand-coding your own Javascript is the best way to learn, and a front-end developer should know pure Javascript as well as jQuery. That said, for real-world applications, a stable third-party library is a better idea.