If you want to use the jQuery style to select elements you can add the below code to your project without loading the full jQuery Library.
window.$ = function(selector) {
var selectorType = 'querySelectorAll';
if (selector.indexOf('#') === 0) {
selectorType = 'getElementById';
selector = selector.substr(1, selector.length);
}
return document[selectorType](selector);
};

