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#Use $$() not $() to return an array of elements

A tip I read on Remy Sharp’s blog.

The Devtools console gives you access to the $() function (even if you don’t include jQuery/Zepto, etc). It’s nice but doesn’t help if you need to return a collection of elements.

That’s where you can use the $$() function, also provided by the console. And the best part is that it doesn't return a NodeList but a real Array.

So you can use map, .forEach directly on it 👏.

I found it very handy and have written small NPM package to use it in production code :)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/query-alias