I would argue that the comfort of using jQuery comes at the cost of speed and obfuscation. I stopped using jQuery about 2 years ago and for the most part had no

I would argue that the comfort of using jQuery comes at the cost of speed and obfuscation. I stopped using jQuery about 2 years ago and for the most part had no problems whatsoever even when I was forced to support IE9. Also I found that searching http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ helps a lot when deciding how to implement certain features.