Remove jQuery dependency

[ssougnez]

Hi,

I'm a huge fan of this library that, for months (years), has been my default choice for tooltips. However, now that I'm mainly developping web app via Angular 2+, I don't need jQuery anymore. Back in the days, jQuery was awesome because it was easy to manipulate the DOM with it but now, it's less and less required with all the Framework (Angular, React, Vue.js...) doing it for us.

I'm currently working on a big project and the only reason why I need jQuery is to be able to use tooltipster, so I was wondering if it wouldn't be an interesting step forward to remove all the dependencies with jQuery and make it a standalone library ?

I can easily imagine that some people (including me) would try other tooltip library just not to include jQuery, especially because it requires some configuration tweaking to be able to use it with CLIs.

[louisameline]

Hello,

Thanks for your message. You're absolutely right, this has been on my mind too for a while. It would require quite some work, I'll have to think about it when I have some spare time!

[ssougnez]

Hela,

Almost a year that I created this issue. Do you think you'll find some spare time anytime soon ? :-D

[louisameline]

Let's be realistic, I don't think so.

[ssougnez]

Ha ha ha, at least it’s clear ^^ I’ll keep referencing jquery in my pages then. Your plugin is too good to use anything else ;-)

[louisameline]

Thank you :)