I've always had a dissatisfied opinion about jQuery, I much preferred Mootools. When coffeescript turned up, it seemed to hop on the back of jQuery. Doing a lot

I've always had a dissatisfied opinion about jQuery, I much preferred Mootools. When coffeescript turned up, it seemed to hop on the back of jQuery. Doing a lot of the things Mootools already did and leaving gaps where jQuery was king. Now I use typescript and no libraries at all. It isn't too difficult to write a utility object that can handle whatever depreciations or abstractions are fluctuating. If you are writing a library of any kind and expect your clients to install jQuery for the benefit I'd say you've added too much bloat.