Ditch that jQuery for plain old JS

Welcome. In this brief article i’m going to detail a few handy implementations that I’ve used over the past couple of years in my work, which involve recreating standard jQuery functions with vanilla JavaScript.

As you might have heard in recent years, there’s been a lot of talk on the grapevine about the death of jQuery and how it may be obsolete in the near future. Whilst i’m probably not as alarmist as this in my views, in my company, we are more frequently trying to work without jQuery wherever we can, making use of the range of new APIs and array methods provided…