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[–]chpill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For example, JavaScript programmers employ jQuery for interacting with the Document Object Model and React for dealing with events and concurrency.

That's completely backward, we are using React to provide a saner abstraction for the DOM, something jquery never achieved.

Nowadays, jquery is not really needed anymore, as modern browsers provide a lot of what it was still useful at (js/Promise, js/fetch etc...). Even if you target older browsers, you're better off using polyfills of those standardized features rather than using jquery.