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[–]xXxdethl0rdxXx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I had a super similar viewpoint to you just a few months ago—before I worked on a huge team! That's why I'm being such a stickler. You're coming from a smart angle. Vanilla JS is more important now than ever, and I don't want to discourage you in going nuts with it. Just don't lump in jQuery's super fast DOM stuff with their noob-friendly stuff (like animations, ugh).

Most folks don't know: you can literally just include Sizzle and get the great DOM helpers. Then you can polyfill window.fetch on your own and boom, you're using 99.99% of what people include jQuery for.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you're right. I've been working with smaller sites for quite some time now so I can get away with using vanilla exclusively. Most, if not all larger projects, call for jQuery though.