Why You SHOULDN'T Learn jQuery in 2020

I don't think there's much point in learning jQuery these days, mainly because vanilla JavaScript has caught up with it. You're better off learning vanilla JavaScript which will be useful for years and years. Here's my thoughts on why you shouldn't learn jQuery if you're learning web development in 2020.

[donpaul]

Hi Eric, appreciate the explanation and "showing" vs telling approach. I see a lot of JavaScript tutorials that dive into syntax and sorta want you to learn a backend approach to JavaScript. Do you have any recommendations for learning JavaScript with a "front-end" approach. I'm not sure the right term, but manipulating HTML & CSS and data on the front end. I have tried a few JQuery tutorials but never get the outputs how I want, then going to 'inspect' to try to figure out how to change the format/color/etc of headers and such hasn't proven as fruitful. So being able to learn how to be able to code in all the functionality to data tables (non JQuery plugin) would be ideal.

[superqaxclub]

I checked that github link and I see native is still complicated compare to jquery, also I rely on AJAX a lot to communicate with server and Fetch API syntax is complicated

[Tom_Armstrong_]

It's weird that Wordpress still relies on this. Jquery is such a big library. I'd love to go native on the sites I work on, and get rid of that whopping file. Thanks for the video too

[jpmtv]

If you want to code faster and easier, use jQuery. If you want to write slowly, complicated and bulky code, go Javascript Vanilla.