jquery is the perfect library and you are supposed to use it to make DOM manipulation simpler. The few KBs of dependency is nothing considering that megatons of bloatware like angular/react/vue is considered normal and goes unchecked today. Add to the fact that most CDNs typically host all major versions of jquery, the "dependency" is the last thing you need to worry about.
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You are right on spot!
jqueryis the perfect library and you are supposed to use it to make DOM manipulation simpler. The few KBs of dependency is nothing considering that megatons of bloatware like angular/react/vue is considered normal and goes unchecked today. Add to the fact that most CDNs typically host all major versions of jquery, the "dependency" is the last thing you need to worry about.