JavaScript: Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

Summary

As the functionality of JavaScript expands, the need for third party frameworks and even transpilers starts to drop off. The language itself replaces many of these tools. The end game for tools like jQuery is that they are no longer required as they have been absorbed into the ecosystem. For many years the velocity of web browsers has been unable to keep pace with the rate of change of people's desires.

There is a large effort behind the next version of AngularJS but great efforts are being made to align the new components with the upcoming web component standards. Web components won't fully replace AngularJS but Angular will end up simply enhancing web components.

Of course the idea that there won't be a need for any frameworks or tools ...