[pseudosavant]

Absolutely. I stopped using actual jQuery a while ago in favor of a light (78 loc) wrapper around the native DOM that mostly uses the jQuery API. jQuery has a really well thought out fluent API.

https://gist.github.com/pseudosavant/b86eedd9960ade958d49447...

[hu3]

This doesn't have closest(), next(), prev(), siblings() and a bunch of other DOM traversers.