es6 selectors as in jquery
In jQuery, the $ selector is basically a function, so you can easily turn that into a function in vanilla JS like so:
const $ = (x) => document.querySelector(x); // Thus, $('.class') or $('#id'). Done and done!
const $$ = (x) => document.querySelectorAll(x); // To select multiple elements via a nodelist. Ex: $$('.multiple-elements')
And if you'd prefer to use getElementById:
const $id = (x) => document.getElementById(x); // Ex: $('id')