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December 2018

Why you shouldn't just always set useCapture to true with vanilla JS event listeners

What's the difference between JavaScript event delegation, bubbling, and capturing?

Why is JavaScript event delegation better than attaching events to each element?

Extending CSS with vanilla JavaScript

Adding items to an object at a specific path with vanilla JS

How to get the value of an object from a specific path with vanilla JS

What makes someone a musician?

How to create a new object with only a subset of properties using vanilla JS

Knowing how to solve problems is more important than technical skills

November 2018

A new Gulp boilerplate

What to do when querySelector() fail on valid selectors

What makes someone a good front-end developer?

Just use :focus styles, damnit

Modern JS is gatekeeping

Black Friday Sale: Make 2019 the year you master JavaScript

How Netflix dramatically improved their front end performance by switching to vanilla JS

How to find a single item in an array with vanilla JS

Just because a big, well-known tech company does something doesn't mean you should, too

Why isn't there an Object.forEach() method?

A vanilla JS forEach() helper method

My CSS methodology

When to use CSS vs. JavaScript

Overengineering CSS

Vanilla JS isn't hard, but learning it is

Displaying the elapsed time in plain English with vanilla JS

CSS isn't broken, your developers just suck at it

What the hell is the call() method and when should you use it?

How to make accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons

How to build a query string from an object with vanilla JS

October 2018

Getting direct descendant elements by selector with vanilla JS

Getting an array of form data with vanilla JS

How to serialize form data with vanilla JS

Debouncing your JavaScript events

How to add a new item to an object at a specific position with vanilla JS

Creating a localStorage helper library