Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
Yes, you can re-implement jQuery in 10 lines of code... if you only support 0.1% of the functionality of jQuery.<p>jQuery was a game changer for web client side development. Thousands of work hours have been spent on it. It had a specially important role of dealing with all the inconsistencies between browsers. If you don't use all the features, nowadays you can just create a custom build with the stuff you want.<p>If you don't need jQuery, maybe because you only care about modern browsers, or you use another library or you don't mind a bit of extra boilerplate for DOM manipulation, that's perfectly fine. But these kind of posts seem like mockery on the developers of a library that has provided extreme value for thousands for developers over many years.