On one hand it may be a nice way to show to people that what they use in jQuery can be written in a few lines of pure JS.
On the other hand it encourages people who could use pure JS (because they only use a small portion of jQuery) to stick with some non-standard helper syntax.
Or in other words - replacing an ugly, verbose API with a widely recognised alternate syntax!
Right. 35 characters.
> "…but jQuery API is no better"
Your jQuery example is 11 characters.
I can’t believe you’re using verbosity as a measurement, while at the same time claiming 35 and 11 are the same.
Does. Not. Compute.
The problem is that "jQuery" function, aliased as "$" has 9 signatures (doing 9 different things, depending on which arguments you send to it), while querySelectorAll does only one thing