Vanilla JS vs jQuery

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Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

// Vanilla
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
  // code
})

// jQuery
$('a').click(function() {
  // code…
})

// Vanilla
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('a'), function(el) {
  el.addEventListener('click', function() {
    // code…
  })
})

Selectors

// jQuery
var divs = $('div')

// Vanilla
var divs = document.querySelectorAll('div')

// jQuery
var newDiv = $('<div/>')

// Vanilla
var newDiv = document.createElement('div')

Attributes

// jQuery
$('img').filter(':first').attr('alt', 'My image')

// Vanilla
document.querySelector('img').setAttribute('alt', 'My image')

Classes

// jQuery
newDiv.addClass('foo')

// Vanilla
newDiv.classList.add('foo')

// jQuery
newDiv.toggleClass('foo')

// Vanilla
newDiv.classList.toggle('foo')

Manipulation

// jQuery
$('body').append($('<p/>'))

// Vanilla
document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('p'))

// jQuery
var clonedElement = $('#about').clone()

// Vanilla
var clonedElement = document.getElementById('about').cloneNode(true)

// jQuery
$('#wrap').empty()

// Vanilla
var wrap = document.getElementById('wrap')
while(wrap.firstChild) wrap.removeChild(wrap.firstChild)

Transversing

// jQuery
var parent = $('#about').parent()

// Vanilla
var parent = document.getElementById('about').parentNode

// jQuery
if($('#wrap').is(':empty'))

// Vanilla
if(!document.getElementById('wrap').hasChildNodes())

// jQuery
var nextElement = $('#wrap').next()

// Vanilla
var nextElement = document.getElementById('wrap').nextSibling

AJAX

GET

// jQuery
$.get('//example.com', function (data) {
  // code
})

// Vanilla
var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest()
httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function (data) {
  // code
}
httpRequest.open('GET', url)
httpRequest.send()

POST

// jQuery
$.post('//example.com', { username: username }, function (data) {
  // code
})

// Vanilla
var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest()
httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function (data) {
  // code
}
httpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
httpRequest.open('POST', url)
httpRequest.send('username=' + encodeURIComponent(username))

JSONP

// jQuery
$.getJSON('//openexchangerates.org/latest.json?callback=?', function (data) {
  // code
})

// Vanilla
function success(data) {
  // code
}
var scr = document.createElement('script')
scr.src = '//openexchangerates.org/latest.json?callback=formatCurrency'
document.body.appendChild(scr)

why am i getting this error document.querySelectorAll('div:not(div div)'); ?

but jquery is working fine $('div:not(div div)');

i think some selectors are not browser natives, and there is a jquery processing going on top of the default queryselector.

JavaScript reads almost like english, it is beautiful, I love it. The other one, although shorter sometimes, feels annoying and ugly to understand.

Amazing, I am building my first project in vanilla JS. This is really helpful. Thank you

Thanks. Really.

vanilla js for life

Good job :-)
Instead of:

// Vanilla
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('a'), function(el) {
  el.addEventListener('click', function() {
    // code…
  })
})

You can write:

// Vanilla
document.querySelectorAll('a').forEach(el => {
  el.addEventListener('click', function() {
    // code…
  });
});

Instead of:

// jQuery
$('img').filter(':first').attr('alt', 'My image')

You can write:

// jQuery
$('img:first').attr('alt', 'My image')

or:

// jQuery
$('img').first().attr('alt', 'My image')

or more general:

// jQuery
$('img').eq(0).attr('alt', 'My image')

Instead of:

// Vanilla
document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('p'))

You can write:

// Vanilla
document.body.append(document.createElement('p'))

Instead of:

// Vanilla
var wrap = document.getElementById('wrap')
while(wrap.firstChild) wrap.removeChild(wrap.firstChild)

You can write:

// Vanilla
document.getElementById('wrap').innerHTML = '';

Instead of:

// Vanilla
var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest()

You can write!

// Vanilla
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()