[mikegirouard]

I thought so too. I guess this is a good time to remind ourselves that we are not our work and it's best not to be too attached to the things we create.

It's worth noting however that the heading says to minimize jQuery and more specifically jQuery plugins. My guess is that jQuery is fine as long as it's serving a low-level function (XHR, etc).

[tracker1]

Not sure how much I agree there... I think the goal is to get away from kitchen sink libraries, react's rendering flow allows for an interaction style that doesn't typically need something like jQuery...

For that matter, I'm surprised they don't have standard polyfills that include fetch, which combined with babel (async/await ftw) make your workflows much easier to reason with.