jQuery-less or jQuery-optional

[ianmstew]

http://jsfiddle.net/tiagorg/5L9qxnsq/ -- see Vanilla Javascript.

The Gitter team talked about how they found hundreds of milliseconds of wins by refactoring jQuery out of heavily-used CollectionView child views. No, jQuery isn't evil, and yes, premature optimization is. But it would be interesting to see if Sesame can run alongside Backbone's no-jQuery support, and shipping a bundle less one dep has advantages besides performance.

Restricting the lib to IE >= 10 would allow for easier pure native code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/classList

[jamesplease]

jQuery-less out of the box? Absolutely.