Last year I started a fairly big new web app after a few years away from web development and started out wanting to not use JQuery since I knew that was what th

Last year I started a fairly big new web app after a few years away from web development and started out wanting to not use JQuery since I knew that was what the cool kids where doing. But everywhere I turned I kept bumping into libraries or widgets I wanted to use that wanted to pull in JQuery as a dependency. And most of the times any JQuery-free alternative I could find wasn't as feature complete or didn't quite work the way I wanted it to. Eventually I just gave up included JQuery.