From jQuery to JavaScript and back again

Re:From jQuery to JavaScript and back again by ricardobeat on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:12AM (#5188508)

Zepto is a nice alternative, with a jQuery-compatible API and a way smaller source. It would be the perfect replacement for jQuery if it wasn't for it's lack of IE support.

For that reason I and a friend started a project called Rye[1] that is a light wrapper around the DOM and other browser APIs; it's made of small modules that you can pick as needed. Despite being < 6kb, it also favours readability over code size, so it's easy to spy under the hood.

Ender[2], a hybrid library/package manager, has a similar philosophy.

[1] http://ryejs.com

[2] http://ender.no.de/

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Re:From jQuery to JavaScript and back again by thomseddon on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:37AM (#5188670)

Rye looks cool, but the main pull of using jQuery (or a jQuery "module" as I would like) is the sheer amount of battle every single line of the library has seen, as the OP said.

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Re:From jQuery to JavaScript and back again by ricardobeat on Friday February 08, 2013 @03:28PM (#5189919)

Of course, yet more lines of code = more bugs. The browser landscape these days is much more stable if you ignore legacy IE.

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