There is a feeling among many people that too many "js devs" only know jquery or _ or angular and not the whole breadth of the language. Articles like these are

There is a feeling among many people that too many "js devs" only know jquery or _ or angular and not the whole breadth of the language. Articles like these are there to show that you don't need to include the whole _ if all you need is a simple "pluck" for instance. Of course there are good reasons for using those libraries, it's all about tradeoffs.