For tasks that cannot be done in vanilla JavaScript, Traversy recommends specialized libraries, instead of a generalized library like jQuery. Traversy also recommends using JavaScript frameworks ...

jQuery 2.0 has officially arrived, and it’s smaller and faster than previous versions of the JavaScript Library ... You can (and should) continue to use jQuery 1.9 (and the upcoming 1.10 ...

Plug-ins are added on top of JavaScript libraries. They can be used to extend a prototype element, which enables jQuery to use added features. Functions which plug-ins provide include XML tools, ...

Developer Flavio Copes has an article on "Should you use or learn jQuery in 2020." In it, he pointed out vanilla JavaScript replacements from jQuery’s most popular features. Here are some examples.