PikaJS: Think jQuery but smaller, lighter, and just as easy to use

3 October 2017 | Programming | 0 comments

(Updated February 2021 for PikaJS 1.2)

Introducing PikaJS: a jQuery-like JavaScript library that simplifies the client-side scripting of HTML.

I had been using jQuery and PrototypeJS, and I needed to ditch PrototypeJS at long last.

My colleague Michael Franzl said, “Hey! Check out this Balalaika thing!”

So I did.

Unfortunately, Balalaika doesn’t give you many methods to do cool stuff. That’s left as an exercise for the programmer…

So, I decided to make my own jQuery, and PikaJS is the result!

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