As React and Angular are so popular, do I still need to learn jQuery if I am just getting started in front end development?

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jQuery is safely in “you can pay me to learn it if you need me to” territory. I wouldn’t worry about it. In fact, I personally consider jQuery calls in a React site to be an anti-pattern and I work to remove them from a codebase if I get the chance.

jQuery is good to understand from a historical perspective and you’ll probably run into jQuery code in the wild, but jQuery is simple enough that if you have already learned a “real” framework, it doesn’t take a lot of work to figure out.