The author doesn't seem to be building a complex single-page app. If that's the case, then yes, jQuery is easier than Angular. If the author IS trying to build

The author doesn't seem to be building a complex single-page app. If that's the case, then yes, jQuery is easier than Angular. If the author IS trying to build a complex single-page app, then I see absolutely no reason why jQuery would be preferable to Angular. Angular does one job and does it well. jQuery is a strong candidate for most reasons you'd ever need javascript in the browser. Yeah, I do agree that Angular's documentation is lacking, especially compared to jQuery's docs. Also, Angular is not my personal first choice front-end UI framework. However, for CRUD application development, I care much more about Angular's holistic approach rather than being able to procedurally manipulate each DOM node and event handler as I would in jQuery. I appreciate the author's passion and think the arguments are valid, but I also feel that this is an unconvincing apples-to-oranges comparison. In my completely honest opinion, I'm not incredibly excited about EITHER Angular or jQuery, but I am grateful for both.