Features

Query elements

var links = $('p:first-child a');

If there is more than one link, the return value is NodeList, if there's only a single match, you have an Element object. So you need to have an idea of what to expect if you want to modify the DOM.

Bind events

$('p:first-child a').on('click', function (event) {
  event.preventDefault();
  // do something else
});

Note: the on and trigger methods are on both Element objects and NodeList objects.

Custom events

$('a').on('foo', function () {
  // foo was fired
});

$('a:first-child').trigger('foo');

Looping

$('p').forEach(function (el) {
  console.log(el.innerHTML);
});

Chaining events

$('a').on('foo', bar).on('click', doclick).trigger('foobar');

Also when a single element is matched, you have access to it:

$('a').href = '/some-place.html';

Silent failing

Like jQuery, this tiny library silently fails when it doesn't match any elements. As you might expect.

Thanks

Inspired by Andrew Lunny's slide.

Further libraries / reading

I've started using this library in conjunction with some microlibraries that I've written for data binding and XHR.

License

MIT / http://rem.mit-license.org