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marticodetoday at 9:05 AM1 replyview on HN

It's fairly close now but so much more verbose: ie document.getElementById('theID') vs $('#theID')


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majewskytoday at 9:12 AM

Nearly every time I write something in JavaScript, the first line is const $ = (selector) => document.querySelector(selector). I do not have jQuery nostalgia as much as many others here, but that particular shorthand is very useful.

For extra flavor, const $$ = (selector) => document.querySelectorAll(selector) on top.

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