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This has been mentioned from time to time and I'd like to bring this up to seriously discuss it.
Removing jQuery brings some big advantages
- people tend to avoid Blaze, simply because it's the only dependency to jQuery
- reduce bundle size by around 70-90 kb
- do not rely to fix security issues that come with jQuery
- use browser-builtin standards do not introduce new dependencies or complex custom implementations
There are also some caveits:
- the DOMBackend basically relies on jquery to parse HTML although this might seem to not be that hard to replace, this still needs a lot of testing and especially integration testing, since this is basically the backbone of Blaze IMO
- we should first merge Faster fragment parsing #334
- we need to preserve API, because there are some builtins that heavily work similar to jQuery (like
templateInstance.$)
Also there is the question of versioning and if the jQuery removal would really have a breaking impact, which would force us towards a major bump.
What do you think?