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jQuery is actually one of the nicer javascript libraries.

- knows what it is, i.e. a web javascript module, it doesn't try to inappropriately wrap itself in CommonJS/AMDJS wrappers

- doesn't need node/npm to run

- doesn't need node/npm to build

However, it would be nice if I could include the parts I wanna use. Similar to lodash/underscore. Now it's either full jQuery or nothing.

You can do that by building it with only the modules you want: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/README.md

There's also an official slim build without ajax and effect modules.