Check this out as well: https://github.com/apollostack/slackin-app
I have a real problem with jQuery on the client: for some reason it tries to handle events, and takes even more time than React. This is measured on a mobile device:
I tried to dig deep into the rabbit hole and remove jQuery, but failed as many of us before. I found this dependency chain: facebook → templating → templating-runtime → spacebars → blaze → jquery.
I sure don’t need jQuery, let alone Blaze to do anything in my app, and jQuery makes debugging performance problems a hell. Has anyone found a way to get rid of them?