[DutchKevv]

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Depending if one is good with other languages and some patterns like MVC, I really like to give someone that has 'figured out' the DOM and jquery etc pa.k. frontend in general, a push to Backbone as a JS learning framework. It's very clean and has a relative hard line between data -> View compared to Angular 4 etc. Also I think Backbone is so simple, It makes learning build flows with Gulp, Webpack etc easier. Thats not something to forget in modern JS world..

If all coding is new to a person, use Jquery only to show 'how simple it can be' and than make very clear most code written in Jquery should be considered a 'quick cheat' and does not hold any true JS revelation. Just to let them keep there eyes open and keep setting targets for themself like faster,scalable etc coding skills in Vanilla JS