classy jQuery - an alternate reality where jQuery really sucked and never took off

classy-jquery.js

/**
classy jQuery - an alternate reality where jQuery really sucked and never took off
OR
Why nobody would have liked jQuery if it had exported a class instead of a factory.
**/

// This just looks stupid. Are we creating a new DOM element
// with id="foo"? Nope. We're selecting an existing DOM element
// with id="foo", and wrapping it in a jQuery object instance.
var $foo = new $('#foo');

// Besides, it's a lot of extra typing with literally ZERO gain.
var $bar = new $('.bar');
var $baz = new $('.baz');

// And this is just... well. I don't know what.
var $bif = new $('.foo').on('click', function () {
  var $this = new $(this);
  $this.html('clicked!');
});