Articles

May 2017

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?

Event listener performance with vanilla JS

Listening to multiple events in vanilla JS

You don’t need to learn ES6

April 2017

What makes vanilla JS vanilla?

When does using libraries stop being vanilla JS?

Detecting SVG support with JavaScript

A vanilla JavaScript select and input plugin

Isaac Asimov was a good dude

Shuffling JavaScript array values

Default values for JavaScript variables

You don’t need to cache array length. Except when you do.

Detecting clicks outside of an element with vanilla JS

.document vs .window in JavaScript

Attaching multiple elements to a single event listener in vanilla JS

Types of errors that strict mode catches (that would otherwise be ignored)

Where to activate strict mode in your scripts

JavaScript Strict Mode (and why you should always use it)

Working with cookies in vanilla JS

A better way to load scripts with JavaScript (or, why document.write() sucks)

Removing an element from the DOM with vanilla JS

Adding a new element to the DOM with vanilla JS

Adding markup to an element with vanilla JS