The point of RawJS is to help with element constructions. jQuery was a god-send back in the day for manipulation and querying (before we had document.querySelector()) but constructions of hierarchies were never really its thing.
There are other libraries that work like RawJS to make complex DOM constructions with function calls. I just don't think the ergonomics of them were as well thought-out as it is in RawJS.
$.append appends, in the name ".append".
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The point of RawJS is to help with element constructions. jQuery was a god-send back in the day for manipulation and querying (before we had document.querySelector()) but constructions of hierarchies were never really its thing.
There are other libraries that work like RawJS to make complex DOM constructions with function calls. I just don't think the ergonomics of them were as well thought-out as it is in RawJS.