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>> .. and vanilla JS with some jQuery

If I could I'd buy you a beer and cheers you for relieving my JS anxiety a bit. I love jQuery, and I'm tired of feeling ashamed of it, damnit!

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I don't think that quote justifies your love of jQuery. The keywords are "some" and "sprinkled in". In my experience jQuery always trends towards a huge mess the more it is used.

Sure, it could be used but it really shouldn't.

Interacting with the DOM in a procedural way, and storing state on the DOM is always going to be harder to manage than using a reactive pattern when you trend towards more complexity.

Really depends on what level of complexity we're talking about. Simple form with a couple of fields or something like gmail?

It's s CRUD app! You don't need everything to be a SPA with a heavy weight framework!

You can use something like Preact for little widgets here and there. It's not one or the other!

jQuery is no better ( these days ) than Vanilla JS, which you will love as well especially if you choose to use ES6 syntax.

`document.querySelectorAll` is amazing. It's a unification of the css syntax and javascript. No more filtering it your self, and your standard javascript stuff still works. It's wonderful.

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