Daily Developer Tips

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

October 2018

Why would you write your own JavaScript library instead of using an established project?

When to use new in JavaScript

Constructor patterns vs. plain objects vs. traditional functions

How to create your own vanilla JS DOM manipulation library like jQuery

Creating your own vanilla JS helper library like Lodash and Underscore.js

Building low impact websites

The web is actually really slow

Why should JavaScript developers learn CSS?

Plugins for Sublime and VS Code that make it easier to write documentation

Frameworks are a barrier to entry

Adding more structure to your JavaScript projects

Brutalist web design

My Gulp Setup

Palm reader

How I setup my vanilla JavaScript projects

You don't need to know command line to be a good developer

Learn JavaScript like Lil Wayne

September 2018

JavaScript Linters

Common JavaScript Bugs

A process for debugging your JavaScript

Legos for web developers

A vanilla JS learning path

Inclusive components

How to write JavaScript with more structure

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