Stay with jQuery but focus on building an awesome media handler.

The other medium-editor repo isnt focusing at all on handling user-uploaded media and that really sucks.

I would switch immediately if you had baked-in integration for

-Youtube inline upload -Images upload

But again, thats just my opinion. The other repo is pretty significant and gaining a lot of traction but I think they will end up relying completely on 3rd parties to handle assets. I think if you focused on media, you could compete and be a more beginner-friendly editor.

Best of luck to you, I love the Medium editor and may end up sending you some pull requests if you keep this thing going.

I personally prefer libraries without dependencies when possible.

Edit: http://YouMightNotNeedjQuery.com might be of assistance

If I were building a project that used jquery, then this would be a good thing.

But these days I prefer things to be as vanilla as possible. jquery is becoming more of a burden than help given how much better modern browsers are becoming.

In the not-too-distant future I picture myself stripping jQuery from my projects, so the less tie-in the better.

Now it's a race, if jQuery Notebook gets up to snuff by the time I need it, I'll use it, if not, Medium Editor it is (personally, I don't care if I have jQuery or not, I'm a pragmatist).