You Don't Need jQuery

Frontend environments evolve rapidly nowadays, modern browsers have already implemented a great deal of DOM/BOM APIs which are good enough. We don't have to learn jQuery from scratch for DOM manipulation or events. In the meantime, thanks to the prevailment of frontend libraries such as React, Angular and Vue, manipulating DOM directly becomes anti-pattern, jQuery has never been less important. This project summarizes most of the jQuery method alternatives in native implementation, with IE 10+ support.

Query Selector
CSS & Style
DOM Manipulation
Ajax
Events
Utilities
Translation
Browser Support

Query Selector

In place of common selectors like class, id or attribute we can use document.querySelector or document.querySelectorAll for substitution. The differences lie in:

document.querySelector returns the first matched element
document.querySelectorAll returns all matched elements as NodeList. It can be converted to Array using [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(selector) || []);
If no elements matched, jQuery would return [] whereas the DOM API will return null. Pay attention to Null Pointer Exception. You can also use || to set default value if not found, like document.querySelectorAll(selector) || []

Notice: document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll are quite SLOW, try to use getElementById, document.getElementsByClassName or document.getElementsByTagName if you want to get a performance bonus.

1.0 Query by selector

// jQuery
$('selector');

// Native
document.querySelectorAll('selector');

1.1 Query by class

// jQuery
$('.class');

// Native
document.querySelectorAll('.class');

// or
document.getElementsByClassName('class');

1.2 Query by id

// jQuery
$('#id');

// Native
document.querySelector('#id');

// or
document.getElementById('id');

1.3 Query by attribute

// jQuery
$('a[target=_blank]');

// Native
document.querySelectorAll('a[target=_blank]');

1.4 Find sth.

Find nodes

// jQuery
$el.find('li');

// Native
el.querySelectorAll('li');

Find body

// jQuery
$('body');

// Native
document.body;

Find Attribute

// jQuery
$el.attr('foo');

// Native
e.getAttribute('foo');

Find data attribute

// jQuery
$el.data('foo');

// Native
// using getAttribute
el.getAttribute('data-foo');
// you can also use `dataset` if only need to support IE 11+
el.dataset['foo'];

1.5 Sibling/Previous/Next Elements

Sibling elements

// jQuery
$el.siblings();

// Native
[].filter.call(el.parentNode.children, function(child) {
  return child !== el;
});

Previous elements

// jQuery
$el.prev();

// Native
el.previousElementSibling;

Next elements

// next
$el.next();
el.nextElementSibling;

1.6 Closest

Return the first matched element by provided selector, traversing from current element to document.

// jQuery
$el.closest(queryString);

// Native
function closest(el, selector) {
  const matchesSelector = el.matches || el.webkitMatchesSelector || el.mozMatchesSelector || el.msMatchesSelector;

  while (el) {
    if (matchesSelector.call(el, selector)) {
      return el;
    } else {
      el = el.parentElement;
    }
  }
  return null;
}

1.7 Parents Until

Get the ancestors of each element in the current set of matched elements, up to but not including the element matched by the selector, DOM node, or jQuery object.

// jQuery
$el.parentsUntil(selector, filter);

// Native
function parentsUntil(el, selector, filter) {
  const result = [];
  const matchesSelector = el.matches || el.webkitMatchesSelector || el.mozMatchesSelector || el.msMatchesSelector;

  // match start from parent
  el = el.parentElement;
  while (el && !matchesSelector.call(el, selector)) {
    if (!filter) {
      result.push(el);
    } else {
      if (matchesSelector.call(el, filter)) {
        result.push(el);
      }
    }
    el = el.parentElement;
  }
  return result;
}

1.8 Form

Input/Textarea

// jQuery
$('#my-input').val();

// Native
document.querySelector('#my-input').value;

Get index of e.currentTarget between .radio

// jQuery
$(e.currentTarget).index('.radio');

// Native
[].indexOf.call(document.querySelectAll('.radio'), e.currentTarget);

1.9 Iframe Contents

$('iframe').contents() returns contentDocument for this specific iframe

Iframe contents

// jQuery
$iframe.contents();

// Native
iframe.contentDocument;

Iframe Query

// jQuery
$iframe.contents().find('.css');

// Native
iframe.contentDocument.querySelectorAll('.css');

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CSS & Style

2.1 CSS

Get style

// jQuery
$el.css("color");

// Native
// NOTE: Known bug, will return 'auto' if style value is 'auto'
const win = el.ownerDocument.defaultView;
// null means not return presudo styles
win.getComputedStyle(el, null).color;

Set style

// jQuery
$el.css({ color: "#ff0011" });

// Native
el.style.color = '#ff0011';

Get/Set Styles

Note that if you want to set multiple styles once, you could refer to setStyles method in oui-dom-utils package.

Add class

// jQuery
$el.addClass(className);

// Native
el.classList.add(className);

Remove class

// jQuery
$el.removeClass(className);

// Native
el.classList.remove(className);

has class

// jQuery
$el.hasClass(className);

// Native
el.classList.contains(className);

Toggle class

// jQuery
$el.toggleClass(className);

// Native
el.classList.toggle(className);

2.2 Width & Height

Width and Height are theoretically identical, take Height as example:

Window height

// window height
$(window).height();
// without scrollbar, behaves like jQuery
window.document.documentElement.clientHeight;
// with scrollbar
window.innerHeight;

Document height

// jQuery
$(document).height();

// Native
document.documentElement.scrollHeight;

Element height

// jQuery
$el.height();

// Native
function getHeight(el) {
  const styles = this.getComputedStyles(el);
  const height = el.offsetHeight;
  const borderTopWidth = parseFloat(styles.borderTopWidth);
  const borderBottomWidth = parseFloat(styles.borderBottomWidth);
  const paddingTop = parseFloat(styles.paddingTop);
  const paddingBottom = parseFloat(styles.paddingBottom);
  return height - borderBottomWidth - borderTopWidth - paddingTop - paddingBottom;
}
// accurate to integer（when `border-box`, it's `height`; when `content-box`, it's `height + padding + border`）
el.clientHeight;
// accurate to decimal（when `border-box`, it's `height`; when `content-box`, it's `height + padding + border`）
el.getBoundingClientRect().height;

2.3 Position & Offset

Position

// jQuery
$el.position();

// Native
{ left: el.offsetLeft, top: el.offsetTop }

Offset

// jQuery
$el.offset();

// Native
function getOffset (el) {
  const box = el.getBoundingClientRect();

  return {
    top: box.top + window.pageYOffset - document.documentElement.clientTop,
    left: box.left + window.pageXOffset - document.documentElement.clientLeft
  }
}

2.4 Scroll Top

// jQuery
$(window).scrollTop();

// Native
(document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollTop) || document.body.scrollTop;

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DOM Manipulation

3.1 Remove

// jQuery
$el.remove();

// Native
el.parentNode.removeChild(el);

3.2 Text

Get text

// jQuery
$el.text();

// Native
el.textContent;

Set text

// jQuery
$el.text(string);

// Native
el.textContent = string;

3.3 HTML

Get HTML

// jQuery
$el.html();

// Native
el.innerHTML;

Set HTML

// jQuery
$el.html(htmlString);

// Native
el.innerHTML = htmlString;

3.4 Append

append child element after the last child of parent element

// jQuery
$el.append("<div id='container'>hello</div>");

// Native
let newEl = document.createElement('div');
newEl.setAttribute('id', 'container');
newEl.innerHTML = 'hello';
el.appendChild(newEl);

3.5 Prepend

// jQuery
$el.prepend("<div id='container'>hello</div>");

// Native
let newEl = document.createElement('div');
newEl.setAttribute('id', 'container');
newEl.innerHTML = 'hello';
el.insertBefore(newEl, el.firstChild);

3.6 insertBefore

Insert a new node before the selected elements

// jQuery
$newEl.insertBefore(queryString);

// Native
newEl.insertBefore(document.querySelector(queryString));

3.7 insertAfter

Insert a new node after the selected elements

// jQuery
$newEl.insertAfter(queryString);

// Native
function insertAfter(newEl, queryString) {
  const parent = document.querySelector(queryString).parentNode;

  if (parent.lastChild === newEl) {
    parent.appendChild(newEl);
  } else {
    parent.insertBefore(newEl, parent.nextSibling);
  }
},

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Ajax

Replace with fetch and fetch-jsonp

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Events

For a complete replacement with namespace and delegation, refer to https://github.com/oneuijs/oui-dom-events

5.1 Bind an event with on

// jQuery
$el.on(eventName, eventHandler);

// Native
el.addEventListener(eventName, eventHandler);

5.2 Unbind an event with off

// jQuery
$el.off(eventName, eventHandler);

// Native
el.removeEventListener(eventName, eventHandler);

5.3 Trigger

// jQuery
$(el).trigger('custom-event', {key1: 'data'});

// Native
if (window.CustomEvent) {
  const event = new CustomEvent('custom-event', {detail: {key1: 'data'}});
} else {
  const event = document.createEvent('CustomEvent');
  event.initCustomEvent('custom-event', true, true, {key1: 'data'});
}

el.dispatchEvent(event);

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Utilities

6.1 isArray

// jQuery
$.isArray(range);

// Native
Array.isArray(range);

6.2 Trim

// jQuery
$.trim(string);

// Native
string.trim();

6.3 Object Assign

Extend, use object.assign polyfill https://github.com/ljharb/object.assign

// jQuery
$.extend({}, defaultOpts, opts);

// Native
Object.assign({}, defaultOpts, opts);

6.4 Contains

// jQuery
$.contains(el, child);

// Native
el !== child && el.contains(child);

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Translation

Browser Support


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You Don't Need jQuery

Table of Contents

Query Selector

CSS & Style

DOM Manipulation

Ajax

Events

Utilities

Translation

Browser Support

License