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February 2020

Using let to declare variables

Resources for building a JAMStack website or web app

Why the JAMStack is awesome (and a few reasons why its not)

Declaring variables

What is type coercion in vanilla JavaScript?

Tools and developer habits

How arrays and strings are similar in vanilla JS

What does the Object.getOwnPropertyNames() method do (and how is it different from the Object.keys() method)?

Converting an object into an array with vanilla JS

How to replace the current URL in the browser's history with the vanilla JS replaceState() method

January 2020

The anatomy of a for loop in vanilla JS (and when you would want to use it instead of Array.forEach())

How to detect when the browser URL changes with vanilla JS

How to update the browser URL without refreshing the page using the vanilla JS History API

Is Array.reduce() bad?

Why use a form element when submitting fields with JavaScript?

The CSS cascade (or, how browsers resolve competing CSS styles)

Variable hoisting in JavaScript

What is hoisting in vanilla JavaScript?

What is that third argument on the vanilla JS addEventListener() method and when do you need it?

Kitchen Table Adventures

Regex with JavaScript

JavaScript gotcha: object.assign() merges into the first object

No, a framework is not faster than vanilla JS DOM manipulation (but it can be)

JavaScript gotcha: global variable assignment

A shorthand for adding to a number or string with vanilla JS

The Lean Web in Net Magazine

The peoples web

Recursion with vanilla JavaScript

The state of Go Make Things 2019

How to set default values when destructuring with JavaScript

Destructuring in JavaScript

Using multiple selectors with querySelector(), querySelectorAll(), closest(), and matches()

Small technology

December 2019

The best thing you read this year

My favorite resource for learning CSS