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Alternatives to jQuery

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Alternatives to jQuery

- [Voiceover] In terms of useful JavaScript frameworks that web designers will be using on a day to day basis JQuery is pretty much the undisputed champ. But there are a few alternatives that are worth looking at. Once you become familiar with JQuery you may find that there are just a few methods that you use all the time. And maybe you don't need the entire library but you don't want to go out and make your own custom build. You can look at Chibi, available here on GitHub. You'd probably want to specifically want to download the package and then extract either this minified version or the readable version. The methods that Chibi includes are down in the Read Me file, down here. And you'll see that there are a bunch of methods that are compatible with the methods you're already familiar with, once you've learned JQuery but it's a much smaller file. Zepto is a similar package that is also largely as it says JQuery compatible. Another alternative that's been around for quiet a while is…

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