Life Without jQuery

Kevin Ku

jQuery used to be the defacto plugin I’ll add to my projects, but most of the time I end up using it to simply select elements on my page or adding clicks and mouseovers. It seems like an awful waste to add an entire library just for those reasons alone.

I’m not sure if it’s a recent thing but I found out that it’s really not that hard to select elements off the page and adding listeners. It’s a couple of characters more than…