openEtG doesn't even use jQuery, it's been alright. Only library it uses is pixijs, & a slimmed down version at that. Originally everything went through canvas/pixijs but over time only a few views aren't DOM

http://etg.dek.im for site

http://github.com/serprex/openEtG for source

It does a lot of dynamic content generation, which dom.js has proved sufficient for