At a little over 32KB for the minified and gzipped download, few people could accuse jQuery of obesity. But it’s rare you need all its abilities. Enter jquip — or jQuery-In-Parts; a smaller, leaner and faster fork of library. It contains 90% of the best parts at a fraction of the size — just 4.28KB (even the uncompressed source is a mere 21.5KB).
You get a lot of functionality in that tiny package:
DOM traversal methods such as eq, first, last, slice, prev, next, siblings, children, etc.
DOM modification methods such as append, prepend and remove
CSS class modification methods such as hasClass, addClass and removeClass
Event methods such as bind and unbind with all the standard types (click, mouseenter mouseleave, submit etc.)
Utility functions such as each, trim, extend, merge, isArray, etc.
The library has a modular architecture so other jQuery facilities are available as plugins which can be included when you require them:
documentReady: $(function()) and $.ready
css: css, Width and Height methods
ajax: ajax, get and getJSON methods
custom: various methods such as queryString and event object isTab, isShift, and cancelEvent
The distribution package provides the plugins as separate scripts and within a single 20KB jquip file — which is just 7.84KB when gzipped. Ultimately, jquip’s developers Demis Bellot and Jey Balachandran hope to implement all the missing jQuery methods as plugins.
