Does Backbone.js have a hard dependency on jQuery?

Question

According to backbone js website:

Backbone\'s only hard dependency is Underscore.js ( > 1.3.1). For RESTful persistence, history support via Backbone.Rout

Answer 1

Try to use jBone, this is library for DOM manipulations in modern browsers, jBone developed special for Backbone, only 2kb gzipped and jQuery like API.