I started my JavaScript career in 2011 with the two books "JavaScript - The Good Parts" by Crockford and "Professional JavaScript Techniques" by Resig.

Somehow all the time I'm doing JS, people were talking about how jQuery was "an old library" and "the old way to do things" even in 2011.

2 years ago I was on a JavaScript meetup and some guy, who did interfaces for stock trading, said: "We had to write our own framework, because jQuery just didn't cut it anymore!"

I just thought, no shit, it's 2016 and NOW you talk about replacing jQuery? Since its inception I used 4 different frameworks and even when I started in 2011 it was already "old news". Where have you been living if you had the impression there is only jQuery and "your own framework"