--- title: You don't need jQuery | daily.dev description: Modern browsers provide native APIs that cover most jQuery use cases without the library overhead. Covers document querying with querySelectorAll, AJAX with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-don-t-need-jquery-rrgbvpw0s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You don't need jQuery | daily.dev og:description: Modern browsers provide native APIs that cover most jQuery use cases without the library overhead. Covers document querying with querySelectorAll, AJAX with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-don-t-need-jquery-rrgbvpw0s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rrgbvpw0S.png og:image:alt: You don't need jQuery og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You don't need jQuery **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Modern browsers provide native APIs that cover most jQuery use cases without the library overhead. Covers document querying with querySelectorAll, AJAX with XMLHttpRequest, animations via CSS transitions, and DOM tree traversal using native browser methods. Each example shows the jQuery approach alongside the vanilla JS equivalent, demonstrating that the verbosity difference is smaller than most developers expect. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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