Goodbye jQuery...
As the web standards becoming more mature each day, my prediction is that the need for third-party JavaScript library such as jQuery will slowly decline. jQuery is indeed still one of the best client-side JavaScript library in my opinion and even I still use it on some of my projects, but as the web application becoming more complex, programmers will starting to look at browser's native solution which will (maybe) offers better performance than the third-party library. In this post i will show you some of the browser's native API for replacing jQuery's DOM selector method, the obvious " $ " or " jQuery " function. Under the hood, jQuery is actually using Sizzle library for its DOM selector, which i believe (even though I haven't dig inside the source code) Sizzle also using some of the browser's native API. DOM selector with document.querySelector(selectors) As the name already suggests, this method under the Document object fetch the fir...