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Chad Windham

dude.... what React (or Angular 2+ or Vue.js) does is so far removed from what JQuery (which is just a library of JavaScript) does it isn't even remotely similar. JQuery was awesome for the problems it solved, but React (and other virtual DOM libraries/frameworks) don't do anything remotely similar to what JQuery was used for...

"TypeScript, Angular, React, are all shit bloated useless specs to trap naive developers into nonsense madness to achieve so little."

um... typescript is NOT what Angular or React is. Typescript compiles into javascript. React and Angular create a virtual DOM for one page applications and trade a heavier up front load time for amazing performance afterwards. They don't "achieve so little". They actually achieve a LOT. The fact that you think JQuery offers anything remotely similar is concerning (in the context of how aggressively you are giving your opinion).

"jQuery make our life easier, you just use regular web knowledge, but faster, cleaner and more intuitive."

Maybe it used to... But when it comes doing things in the realm of "regular web knowledge" I haven't found anything JQuery does that is really THAT much better than vanilla JS (ES6 standards). Maybe you can save some time (but not really THAT much) by using their pre-made stuff versus writing your own. But the funny thing is, I don't like TypeScript for the same reason I don't like JQuery. Ultimately its all just JavaScript anyways and JavaScript is not so hard that you need to abstract it or add another thing to it. Just write good/clean JavaScript and be done.