umbrella

whenever i feel the need for jquery these days, i typically reach for the much smaller, faster, ie11+ https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella

Partially agree. The big problem IMO is momentum in the code. While they do solve many issues, once a browser is not supported anymore the library doesn't get "cleaned up" to reflect it because it just works. So you end up with this stark difference (disclaimer: Umbrella is my own): - jQuery's addClass(), 35 lines: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/attributes/... - Umbrella JS's addClass(), 5 lines: https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/src/plugi... So the choice is either well-tested libraries that slows your users down so you'll lose a % of them, optimize the hell out of them so you'll "waste"* time, or use a smaller library which is a compromise between them you'll loose a tiny % of users who you don't support, but you have to invest some time to learn it. It is not black and white, so luckily we have a choi

That is indeed, depending on the context (you know the strings won't contain commas OR that it should be split in the commas), one way to do it in Javascript ( https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/src/plugi... ): return args.toString().split(/[\s,]+/).filter(/* ... */);

I totally agree. I used to have a really bad mobile connection up until a few years ago (Spain), and still when I use up all my mobile internet it reverses to 2G. So I know the pain and decided I wouldn't do the same to my users as a web developer. I created these projects from that: - Picnic CSS: http://picnicss.com/ - Umbrella JS (right now website in maintenance): http://github.com/franciscop/umbrella Also I wrote an article on the topic: - https://medium.com/@fpresencia/understanding-gzip-size-836c7... Finally, I also have the domain http://100kb.org/ and intended to do something about it, but then I moved out of the country and after returning things got much better and now I have decent internet so I lost interest. If you want to do anything with that domain like a small website competition just drop me a line and I'll give you acce