Native JS Like jQuery

Lately was pawing at some Selector API’s and really liked the raw power of native JS!

So here is some comaprsion of Native JS vs jQuery selectors

As jQuery uses ”$” as a shortcut for “jQuery”, lets defined a naughty $$ for making things much more easier. [ True! I can use “jQuery.noConflict()”.]

As per the standards The dollar sign ($) and the underscore (_) are permitted anywhere in an IdentifierName.

function $$(selector){ return Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(selector), 0); }

Native	jQuery
$$(‘body’).length
$(‘body’).length

$$(‘div’).length
| $(‘div’).length

$$(‘body div’).length
| $(‘body div’).length

$$(‘div > p’).length
| $(‘div > p’).length

$$(‘div + p’).length
| $(‘div + p’).length

$$(‘div ~ p’).length
| $(‘div ~ p’).length

$$(‘div[class^=exa][class$=mple]‘).length
| $(‘div[class^=exa][class$=mple]‘).length

$$(‘div, p, a’).length
| $(‘div, p, a’).length

The above is just the starting to it, even though /me has great respect towards jQuery I like to paw more on native js.