Why use jQuery(selector).get(0) instead of jQuery(selector)[0] to get DOM element?

Question

Using jQuery is there any benefit to using $(selector).get(0) over $(selector)[0] if I just want to get the first item in the jQuery array as a DOM ele

Answer 1

As an ardent fan of code readability by humans I suggest neither approach is satisfying. .get(0) and [0] look too much like container indexing. More is at stake when converting a jQuery object to a DOM object. So I introduce a function to name what's going on.

function dom_from_$($jquery_object) {
    var dom_object = $jquery_object.get(0);
    return dom_object;
}

Used like this:

var domElement = dom_from_$($(selector));