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🚀 Make 2019 the year you master JavaScript! My vanilla JavaScript pocket guides are short, focused, and made for beginners. You can do this!

April 2019

Using array methods with NodeLists in vanilla JS

How to remove an item from an array with vanilla JS

Solving JavaScript problems vs. being shown the way

Clever JavaScript does not mean simple or readable

Making the jump from beginner to advanced JavaScript developer

March 2019

Why you should learn vanilla JS first

Dev console trick: selector helpers

Advice for beginners

A vanilla JS equivalent of lodash's groupBy() method

Readability is more important than brevity

I was wrong about JavaScript-free dropdowns

Javascript-free dropdown menus

Building accessible websites and apps is a moral obligation

More uses for Array.reduce()

We are actively destroying the web

How to automate NPM deployment with GitHub action hooks

How performant are modern array methods vs old-school for loops in vanilla JS?

Using Array.reduce() in vanilla JS

New techniques are not always better

How Array.forEach() works under-the-hood in vanilla JS

Chaining array methods in vanilla JS

What Array.find() does in vanilla JS

What Array.filter() does in vanilla JS

What Array.map() does in vanilla JS

Using Array.map() to create markup from an array with vanilla JS

Won't you be my neighbor?

February 2019

The Vanilla JS List

Companies that use vanilla JS

this sucks

Getting the differences between two objects with vanilla JS

How to check if two arrays are equal with vanilla JS

When it's OK if a browser doesn't support a feature

JavaScript-free accordions

The ethics of web performance

Updates to the VanillaJS Toolkit