http://lea.verou.me/2015/04/jquery-considered-harmful/ - done reading
https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2mry94/moving_away_from_jquery/
https://ponyfoo.com/articles/getting-over-jquery
http://www.levihackwith.com/a-helpful-guide-to-moving-away-from-jquery-via-the-lonely-coder/
http://readysetrocket.com/news/jquery-vs-javascript-why-im-moving-away-from-jquery/
http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/
http://www.sitepoint.com/do-you-really-need-jquery/
http://tutorialzine.com/2014/06/10-tips-for-writing-javascript-without-jquery/
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/29216146-moving-away-from-jquery
http://blog.wearecolony.com/a-year-without-jquery/
https://www.airpair.com/angularjs/posts/jquery-angularjs-comparison-migration-walkthrough
Why do some people think that jQuery is harmful?
jQuery has helped tremendously to move the Web forward. It gave developers power to do things that were previously unthinkable, and pushed the browser manufacturers to implement these things natively (without jQuery we probably wouldn’t have document.querySelectorAll now). And jQuery is still needed for those that cannot depend on the goodies we have today and have to support relics of the past like IE8 or worse.
- Modern browsers have caught up with jQuery in a lot of case, so we should consider using native methods because it is faster. jQuery will use native methods too, but jQuery itself add a little overhead.
- The size of the jQuery library is bigger than its cousin Zepto.
