[ralmidani]

A few years ago, jQuery would have been an excellent choice, but it’s pretty dormant now, and frameworks are moving away from imperative code towards declarative code. For learning how to build very basic apps it could work, so I suppose a person could spend a few weeks with it, but I don’t think it’s a good long-term investment.

If someone understands HTML they should be fine using JSX after a tutorial or two. The build system adds some friction, but with create-react-app you can get pretty far without having to understand much about build systems (and you even get auto-refresh).