We all love to hop on the latest JavaScript bandwagon - and there are some amazing things you can do with modern frameworks. Modern JavaScript and DOM APIs are much improved as well, with a movement to ditch jQuery in favor of vanilla javascript. But Martin Tournoij also has a pretty good case for why jQuery might still be pretty nice, starting with:

Pages like You might not need jQuery try to sell the idea that it’s easy to ditch jQuery, but the very first example is a good reason to use jQuery: one line of trivial jQuery code gets replaced with 10 lines of vanilla JS code!