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Just replace that one liner with a 15 liner.

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document.querySelector('html')

And for React: https://javascript.info/custom-elements

Other functions are much more difficult to replace

    $('.sth').closest('ul')

To me jQuery is like Regex or Linq. I think it had a really good api.

You can also do this with DOM APIs, no?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/clo...

This did not exist the last time I looked. TIL. Thank you!

Is not the same thing as it is a Element method, not NodeList one, so you will would need to map it instead. Because NodeList doesn't have the .map method you would also need to transform it to a Array first.

So the actually drop-in replacement of `$(foo).closest(bar)` would be something like:

    Array.from(document.querySelector(foo)).map(el => el.closest(bar))

Is it harder or just a bit longer-winded? E.g. i'm thinking this is the same behaviour

    document.getElementsByClassName('sth')[0]?.closest('ul');

Thanks, this is now standard it seems. TIL

That's not exactly the same, I don't think, because jQuery will give you all the `ul` that are closest to `.sth`, not just the first. You'd have to write a loop over the list returned from `document.getElementsByClassName('sth')` to get the same behaviour (because it doesn't look like the standardised `closest` works on lists.)

If i'm following right, i think this expression would match?

    Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("sth")).map(e => e.closest("ul"))

The jQuery is definitely nicer to read than this though

Yeah, that seems to do the same.

It's not because you know how to do a hello world that you know how to program.

And you would replace $.getJSON by how many lines?

are we doing CORS? Adding headers? If it is just a one-off fetch, I'd probably long-hand it. If I intended to be fetching from many endpoints, I'd probably write a tiny little abstraction. I'm not exactly keen on loading a 30kb lib (gzipped) so that I can write (maybe) fewer lines for data fetching. Especially considering jQuery's async requests don't conform to the fetch standard. (They reject on 404s)

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