Quote (drwl @ Apr 2 2019 08:00pm)
jquery is dead in industry, not sure why you would recommend it
jquery is present on the vast majority of websites and is a good place to start when learning DOM manipulation and XHR. It still has a place in web development for less complicated projects. It is not dead.
I would suggest learning html 5, css 3, and plain js to make a simple static website. Everything builds off of those tools and knowing them well will save you a lot of time and frustration down the road.
Then I would suggest learning any type of database like MySql or MongoDB (nosql). In web development the database is rarely where the majority of your work is done. Put some data into your database. Then you need to make some software that can read that data and serve it to your front end. You could use a Node (JavaScript) server like Express or a Java server like Spring. Node/Express may be easier if you're unfamiliar with Java.
w3schools has information on all of this stuff and can be found here:
https://www.w3schools.com/ You may want to read up on different types of software stacks like LAMP and MEAN stacks.
LAMP being the go-to stack for a long time is: Linux (OS), Apache (For serving pages and processing PHP), MySql (relational database), PHP (which can include your HTML, JS, CSS).
MEAN being a more modern stack is comprised of: MongoDB(nosql db), Express (A web app / HTTP server using node), Angular (JavaScript/TypeScript framework for creating the UI), and Node (which is required on your server to run node).