> That said, I can’t write about what I didn’t experience. By the time I started writing frontend apps, there was a new generation of frameworks that had just s

> That said, I can’t write about what I didn’t experience. By the time I started writing frontend apps, there was a new generation of frameworks that had just started to reach maturity: Angular.js, Ember.js, Backbone, and more. Prior to these, the state of the art had been libraries like jQuery and MooTools. Well, crap. Now I feel super old. I’ve been using JS since the mid-90s and I did not expect this to start with “the era of jQuery is in the distant past”. I recently started using Cypress (automation testing framework) and was somewhat surprised to learn that it was using jQuery under the hood. And a few weeks ago I was reading the documentation for a very popular data table grid component and was surprised that it was still using jQuery under the hood too (and had all kinds of rationales as to why they didn’t think it necessary to rewrite the component without jQuery). I assumed jQuery would have faded into complete disuse by now.