Don’t let all of the old heads glazing jquery in this thread confuse you - they’re just nostalgic. There’s no reason to even think of using jquery in 2026

Generally speaking, no, since a lot of what it does is now available natively, the odds that you'll need something from it are much lower.

There's probably some corner-case stuff it still makes easier if you're not using some framework, but I don't think there's a reason to go out of your way to use it just for the sake of using it.

if you need to sprinkle interactivity, jQuery is much more approachable than spa libraries like react.

maybe use Vue or something like mithril which doesn't require build. But jQuery is short and easy to grasp.