Daily Developer Tips

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

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July 2018

When do you need to use useCapture with addEventListener?

Why I don't use let, const, or fat arrow functions (and you shouldn't either)

Everything is an object in JavaScript

Using stateful components to build a stopwatch web app with vanilla JS

A stateful component helper function for vanilla JS

State-based components with vanilla JS

More is not better

Cross-browser compatibility with vanilla JS

Reader feedback on event bubbling with lots of items

Event bubbling with lots of items

Inlining literally everything for better performance

HTTP explained in comic form

June 2018

Chris Buecheler on JS prototypes

Some additional thoughts on copyright and open source

Copyright, code, and open source

Moving beyond WordPress as a CMS

Race, Careers, and Privilege

How to polyfill the browser-native datalist autocomplete functionality

How to create a form input autocomplete without a library or framework

Why you need to use typeof to check if a function exists with vanilla JS

JavaScript selector strategy

How to check if a function already exists with vanilla JS

How to check if any part of an element is out of the viewport with vanilla JS

Recreating the React tic-tac-toe game with vanilla JS

How to shuffle an array with vanilla JS

How to test for accessibility

The cult of the complex

Why would you use Array.some() or Array.every() over Array.filter()

Your website data is a lie

Feature tests and server side JavaScript

Knowing the answers vs. knowing where to find them

Javascript framework demos in vanilla JS

May 2018

Developer convenience vs. user goals

How to update localStorage() with vanilla JavaScript

My biggest challenge with JavaScript