I visited the homepages of the 14.8 million sites in Google’s Chrome UX Report in October.
I thought jQuery would be dead, but it’s still on 53.7% of sites, and it seems to be tied quite tightly to the platform. Webflow puts it on 97.6% of its sites, WordPress on 84.9%. For contrast, React is on 10.6% of sites.
jQuery helped me get into web development, and I guess it still gets the job done even if redundant with browser standards these days…
For me, the reason is because everything I used jQuery for is now available in native JavaScript. That said, React is definitely more bloated, so I’m stepping over dollars to pick up pennies.