[fatwa]

I have used jQuery UI for its "sortable" interaction. It did the job. I would use it again. Is there any alternative anyway?

[chrisparton1991]

Absolutely, lots of people are keen for jQuery UI features without the bloat of jQuery+jQuery UI.

For sortable, there's https://github.com/RubaXa/Sortable. It comes in at around ~6KB gzipped, compared to ~80kb for jQuery UI's JavaScript (not to mention CSS and jQuery itself).