Articles

June 2017

Announcing “Vanilla JavaScript for Beginners”

Adding a “night mode” to your site with vanilla JavaScript

How to get an element’s siblings with vanilla JavaScript

Climbing up the DOM until you hit a match with vanilla JavaScript

How to get all parent elements with vanilla JavaScript

The Vanilla Javascript Repository

How to get the closest parent element with a matching selector using vanilla JavaScript

Two-way data binding with vanilla JavaScript

A vanilla JavaScript plugin boilerplate

How I structure my vanilla JavaScript plugins [video]

JavaScript form validation

Accessibility and ARIA

Accessibility (according to people with actual disabilities)

JavaScript and dates revisited

JavaScript Coaching

How to check if a date is valid with vanilla JavaScript

May 2017

Learning Vanilla JS Deeply

How to really learn JavaScript

Email validation in JavaScript

When to use “use capture” in your event listeners

Highlighting effect with CSS

Stupid web security shit

Who should drive? How to create a vanilla JS web app.

Social sharing buttons are pointless (except when they’re not)

Lessons from South Africa

Conditional JavaScript loading in WordPress

How to simulate a click event with vanilla JavaScript

How to only load your JavaScript file if the browser supports your code

JavaScript feature detection

How to find bottlenecks in your JavaScript

Vanilla JavaScript and Performance

How to prevent fullscreen web apps from opening links in a new tab on iOS

Prefixing JavaScript selectors to avoid conflicts

WTF is `use capture` in vanilla JS event listeners?

Why 66ms when using setTimeout?