JavaScript improvements

In the source files, all the JavaScript plugins have been written using ES6, and for distribution, it is compiled with Babel. They also now come with UMD support.

Now that IE 8 support has been dropped, it's safe to always use jQuery 2.0 with Bootstrap. jQuery 2.0 is smaller and faster and has more features.

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