I appreciate that jQuery got us to where we are today, but as far as best practices go, I don't think we should encourage its current use. The best we could do

I appreciate that jQuery got us to where we are today, but as far as best practices go, I don't think we should encourage its current use. The best we could do for a 'replacement' is a site that lets you pick which browsers you're targeting, which DOM APIs you want, and generates a polyfill.