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No it doesn't. Just about everything jQuery does is now a browser API these days, so you no longer save time using jQuery vs vanilla JS.

The only argument for continuing to use it is that you're used to it and not used to the modern APIs that have absorbed jQuery's functionality. It's just a slower way of doing the same thing.




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