There is so much we can be grateful for jQuery. It was the first JS platform (plugins) and had a huge impact on the DOM API. Without jQuery there would not be a

There is so much we can be grateful for jQuery. It was the first JS platform (plugins) and had a huge impact on the DOM API. Without jQuery there would not be any BackboneJS, AngularJS etc. jQuery got its niche today. Still the best for simple one-off landingpages.