brief.js is an incredibly lightweight (<1k minified and gzipped) and extendable DOM Selection and Event Listener library. brief.js provides an increcibly concise syntax combined with an incredibly intuitive API. I hated writing the same code over and over to handle event listening, so I thought you might be fed up too. You should head over and take a look at our API and Demos so that you can get started!

Multiple Elements

        brief.js
  // We are going to create a click handler on all divs
  // that delegates to all the anchor tags in them
  brief('div').on('click', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    console.log(event);
  }, 'a');

        Regular JS
  // We are going to create a click handler on all divs
  // that delegates to all the anchor tags in them
  var divs = document.querySelectorAll('div');
  for (var i = 0, len = divs.length; i++) {
    divs[i].addEventListener('click', function(event) {
      if (event.srcElement.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
        event.preventDefault();
        console.log(event);
      }
    }, false);
  }

Single Element

        brief.js
  // We are going to create a click handler on all divs
  // that delegates to all the anchor tags in them
  brief('div').on('click', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    console.log(event);
  }, 'a');

        Regular JS
  // We are going to create a click handler on all divs
  // that delegates to all the anchor tags in them
  var divs = document.querySelectorAll('div');
  for (var i = 0, len = divs.length; i++) {
    divs[i].addEventListener('click', function(event) {
      if (event.srcElement.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
        event.preventDefault();
        console.log(event);
      }
    }, false);
  }