Daily Developer Tips

I send out a short email each weekday with code snippets, tools, techniques, and interesting stuff from around the web.

September 2018

How to add private variables and helper methods to your vanilla JS constructor patterns

An introduction to the JavaScript constructor pattern

Adding reactivity to state based components with vanilla JS

The text only web

The developer experience is bullshit

An ES6 way to get all sibling elements with vanilla JS

Understanding the cascade (and specificity) in CSS

How to force a minimum string length with vanilla JS

How to get all siblings of an element until a selector is found with vanilla JS

Finding the next and previous sibling elements that match a selector with vanilla JS

How to get all of an element's siblings with vanilla JS

How to get the next and previous siblings of an element with vanilla JS

An easier way to work with dates in vanilla JS

August 2018

Callback hell is a myth

Why "plugin" is technically inaccurate (but still the right word for vanilla JS components)

Does minification actually matter?

How to be a great JavaScript developer

How saferInnerHTML() works

A safer alternative to innerHTML with vanilla JS

Words matter

Do you need to worry about errors with querySelectorAll() in vanilla JS?

Avoiding errors when using querySelector() in vanilla JS

What's the best way to document JavaScript?

How to ignore "open in a new tab" clicks with vanilla JS event listeners

Vanilla JS off-canvas navigation menus

You should always attach your vanilla JS click events to the window

What's the difference between the ParentNode.children and Node.childNodes properties in vanilla JS?

You should treat browser support differently for CSS and JavaScript

How to play a video in full screen mode when its thumbnail is clicked with vanilla JS

Going full screen with vanilla JS

Debugging event bubbling errors with vanilla JS

JavaScript learning resources from Snipcart

A vanilla JS alternative to HandlebarsJS and MustacheJS

Web accessibility nutrition cards

How many kilobytes is too many?