Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative)

Cash: A minimalist modern browser jQuery alternative (IE11) that provides jQuery-like syntax to manipulate DOM. By leveraging the features of modern browsers to minimize the code base, developers can use familiar chained methods, with only a fraction of the file size. While not intended to achieve 100% functional peer with jQuery, Cash is already very close, covering most everyday use cases.

The file size after compressing and gzip is only 6KB, even smaller than Zepto. Zepto's goal is to provide a smaller jQuery alternative, but it hasn't been updated for years, which is also a consideration.

If IE 11 support is abandoned, the size of Cash can be further reduced, which is curious.

jQuery is still being used by a large number of websites and has only recently reached its peak in usage and started to decline. This is probably because it comes pre-installed on most WordPress sites, right? WordPress websites account for 42% of all websites.

Anyway, if you're using jQuery just for some handy API, Cash looks like a good alternative. I can understand this approach, too. Using $ instead of document.querySelectorAll still feels comfortable, not to mention all the other advanced features hidden behind the $ function.

It is worth mentioning: if you want to remove jQuery directly from your project, replace-jquery may be worth a try:

Automatically find jQuery methods in existing projects and generate native JavaScript alternatives.

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