I wouldn't say that jQuery is something that should be avoided. It depends on your current experience in JavaScript. I remember that our designer at a former co

I wouldn't say that jQuery is something that should be avoided. It depends on your current experience in JavaScript. I remember that our designer at a former company was preparing the HTML markup and CSS styles for us (mainly JavaScript developers) and he was comfortable using jQuery for prototyping animations and other stuff. The more I learned about frontend technologies the more I started to realize where it makes sense to use jQuery and where not. With increasing knowledge one starts to think more about optimizing code and reducing the amount of libraries used etc. At the current company I'm working now, we also had use cases where we had to use native JavaScript due to some restrictions. All in all, we still have a fair usage of jQuery and I honestly don't see anything wrong with that.