JavaScript is the CO2 of the web

KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.

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Featuring:

• Chris Ferdinandi – Website, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Segment 1:

• Artifact conference
• The split - article on JS for server
• When is vanilla JS vanilla
• Svelte
• The “Developer Experience” Bait and Switch

Segment 2:

• Eloquent JavaScript
• Wes Bos
• Brad Frost
• Jeremy Keith
• Sara Soueidan
• Article on knowing what to focus on

Segment 3:

• Array Reduce
• Polyfill.io
• Eric Elliot
• James Sinclair
• You Don’t Know JS
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
• Programming as Translation
• URLSearchParams
• FormData

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