Echo JS 0.11.0

This article gets the whole point wrong. For a simple task you use simple tools, for a very large and complex task you use tools built for that scale. Vanilla JS would be the simple tool he should use to create an email button.

It seems like the lesson here is to not use React for everything, which I don't think anyone is claiming is the thing to do. jQuery lived at very interesting point in web development where it very simply solved a lot of simple JavaScript problems. No other library or framework is attempting to do that, as far as I know. Once a developer moves to a new framework it's because jQuery is no longer the most effective tool to use.