Knex.js is crazy convenient, just like jQuery

But do I need these dependencies?

{
  "dependencies": {
    "colorette": "1.1.0",
    "commander": "^4.1.1",
    "debug": "4.1.1",
    "esm": "^3.2.25",
    "getopts": "2.2.5",
    "inherits": "~2.0.4",
    "interpret": "^2.0.0",
    "liftoff": "3.1.0",
    "lodash": "^4.17.15",
    "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
    "pg-connection-string": "2.1.0",
    "tarn": "^2.0.0",
    "tildify": "2.0.0",
    "uuid": "^7.0.1",
    "v8flags": "^3.1.3"
  }
}

For jQuery, I would use cash-dom instead; but is there something instead of Knex.js?

Indeed, I did use Knex in a project, and was quite satisfied. But if I don't have Knex, I would create one myself, anyway.