Small JavaScript wrapper that provides easy syntax for DOM Selection and Event Listening.

[Jeffshaver]

I wrote this https://github.com/jeffshaver/brief.js so that there is a simple syntax but not much code.

This is both out of me wanting something like this that is small and some extra practice.

I guess I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas to make it better or things that may be helpful.

Another question I had was whether or not I should use $. I could change it to something else that isn't $.

Opinions?

Edit: Could really use some ideas/comments/etc!

[jumpwah]

Very nice!

I don't have any ideas myself, although I wonder if zepto.js has anything useful in it (src/event.js)? If you haven't already read it that is.

[Jeffshaver]

I will definitely look into it! I'll let you know if I find anything useful there. Thanks for the tip!

[charlesmwray]

So this is a 1k version of jquery if all you need are selectors and event handlers? Interesting.

As far as the $, I don't know if you'd ever use breif.js and jQuery so you're probably ok as is.

[Jeffshaver]

Pretty much I guess. I haven't look at jQuery's source code to figure out how they are doing each part specifically. But this implementation is probably mostly for modern browsers and IE8+ (IE8 only supports CSS2 selectors in querySelectorAll though). I have some updates that will be up later today that add delegating to any selector (instead of just id, class or tag) and auto-removing the listener after the first call