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Somehow I dodged that bullet. :D

In 2006 when jQuery was released, I was neck deep in PHP and I didn't build web apps with JavaScript until 2011. At that time I had the impression jQuery was legacy and nobody uses it anymore, so I didn't bother to look more into it.

I built my first JS project with ExtJS 4 in 2011.

Then I had a short project at university in 2014, where I used Ember.js, so I guess I used jQuery indirectly, haha.

In the next job I got in 2015, they were already using React, so I went with that, and later did some React-Native projects as a freelancer later.

But the first JavaScript book I read 2011 was "Pro JavaScript Techniques" by John Resig, so I guess, I can't deny that jQuery had some influence on my JS journey :D