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Modern JS is great and does all sorts of things. Some of them have been in browser engines for years. Sometimes you just don't need jQuery (a huge library often just included for the sake of it). jQ has become so ubiquitous that some JS entry level devs think it's a completely different language. zQuery (long name zeroQuery) is an attempt to inform about old and new techniques that all have two things in common: The don't use jQuery, but have the same functionality, and they're faster, have wider support or are just cooler in general[citation needed] zQuery is a essentially a cheat-sheet, a quick reference, to build your own atomic APIs for whatever you are developing, without jQuery. It doesn't only contain plain JS alternatives, but also neat JS hacks (unlike the similar youdontneedjquery). You can find zQuery at the (share-friendly ) URL git.io/zQuery. Star it, read it, and if you have something in mind, contribute! An example plain JS plugin that uses zQuery techniques is my context-menu plugin justContext.js.

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