The reusable functions you need from jQuery likely don't justify jQuery's size. It's better to write or copy/paste wrappers for everything you need.

Not for something so simple. It's trivial to abstract small, oft-repeated actions like that to their own function. As I do, regularly. And then I can give it a readable name, like `createElement` or `insertElement` with an interface like:

    insertElement(type: string, text?: string. attributes?: object, parent?: string): void;

I prefer writing something like that with some minor case-handling over pulling in a library every time I meet a repeatable fragment.

If I know I'm going to run into a large host of needs, then it's a different story. But most of the time I find jQuery overkill and somewhat opaque.

I wonder why you found necessary to repeat what I said but in different words? :)

But I expressly wouldn't include a 30-100k library just to wrap a couple of repeated functions.

I happily write them myself. It's a few seconds of work, really.