Make jQuery Optional

[sandstrom]

Link to rendered RFC

[dukex]

FF11 marketshare is > 0%
https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=3&qpaf=&qpcustom=Firefox+11&qpcustomb=0

[mike1o1]

One approach the Angular team takes is to use Google's jqLite library if jQuery itself isn't loaded. Is it worth investigating to see if a similar approach can be taken for Ember?

This can also be exposed for developers. If a developer invokes Ember.$ or this.$() within a view and jQuery is not available, Ember would return an instance of jqLite. Angular's equivalent to Ember.$ is angular.element, which is documented here, in case you wanted some prior art to look at.

[locks]

Related: emberjs/ember.js#3791

[runspired]

Related #86 removes most of the reliance on jQuery for eventing.

In my current implementation, jQuery.event.fix(e) is used to normalize the event. This is something that could be pulled out as a micro-lib exposing the needed jquery AMD module.

https://github.com/runspired/ember-capture-eventing/blob/master/addon/event_dispatcher.js#L379

[ming-codes]

Related: https://github.com/rwjblue/ember-native-dom-event-dispatcher

Haven't tried it yet, but assuming it works, it's a bridge to be rid of jQuery.

[sandstrom]

Closing this RFC, since work is nowunderway to make jQuery optional.