Learn JavaScript & jQuery - a book about interactive front-end web development
This looks like it could be a great book for anyone looking to get starting with JavaScript.
You Don’t Need jQuery! – Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
The tone is a bit too heavy-handed for my taste, but the code examples here are very handy if you’re weaning yourself off jQuery.
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You Might Not Need jQuery
A handy resource if you’re used to using jQuery for everything but you want to try going JavaScript commando.
Don’t get me wrong: jQuery is great, but for a lot of projects, you might not need 90% of the functionality it provides. So try starting with vanilla JS and only pulling in jQuery if and when you need it.
A Dive Into Plain JavaScript
A nice introduction to writing vanilla JavaScript, especially if you’re used to using jQuery.
Vanilla JavaScript FTW
I’ve found myself using jQuery less and less recently. Partly to avoid the extra download and file size but also—as shown here—when it comes to DOM manipulation, there’s a lot you can do straight out of the box.
Play School: Easy Ajax - load | jQuery for Designers - Tutorials and screencasts
Remy teaches non-techies how to use jQuery in a responsible way.
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Suspicion
Responses to my thoughts on why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
A tiny lesson in query selection
Here’s a little thing I learned.