This is one of my preferred methods of development. I use jQuery because I'm not worried about the 40kb and I'll take all the free backwards compatibility I ca

This is one of my preferred methods of development. I use jQuery because I'm not worried about the 40kb and I'll take all the free backwards compatibility I can get. Besides it'll inevitably be a dependency for one of the libraries you want to use. If my templates start getting complex I've been known to use Jade templating with Jadeify.