Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019

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Many people advocate “just use vanilla JavaScript, you don’t need jQuery”. 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! Many common operations in the standard JavaScript APIs are awkward; I could include a list here, but that You might not need jQuery (YMNJQ) page actually does a pretty good job at it

You will still need helper functions for various common tasks.

Source: arp242.net