Welcome, Drunken UX Podcast listeners!

Thanks for listening to me chat with Michael and Aaron about vanilla JS, frameworks, and challenges building for the modern web.

(Oh, and naval jelly!)

I’ve put together a ton of resources to help you dig deeper into the Lean Web.

⏰🦉 Early Bird Sale! A new session of the Vanilla JS Academy starts on February 1. Today only, get 40% off the program. Click here to learn more.

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Articles

• The web is not dying
• Always bet on HTML
• How I structure my vanilla JS projects
• Modern JS is gatekeeping
• The Tao of web development
• Building accessible websites and web apps is a moral obligation
• The problem with single page apps
• Three tricks for building an insanely fast website
• Overengineering CSS
• Just because a big, well-known tech company does something doesn’t mean you should, too
• Why I love polyfills
• Does progressive enhancement still matter?
• Build for failure
• JavaScript and the mobile-only user
• Progressive enhancement and the next billion users
• Your website data is a lie
• My three principles for building for the web
• Building low-impact websites

The Lean Web Talk & Ebook

You can watch my talk on the Lean Web, or read it in ebook form, at LeanWeb.dev.

There’s also a ton of free resources for building simpler, faster websites on the site.

Podcasts

• The Web Platform Podcast: Lean Web Dev
• Script & Style: Vanilla JS and the Lean Web
• devMode.fm: Returning sanity to the web dev process
• JS Party: JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
• The Shop Talk Show: The power of the native web
• Hanselminutes: Maybe just use vanilla JS
• What’s wrong with CSS-in-JS?
• Accessibility is a moral obligation
• The developer experience is bullshit
• Old doesn’t mean obsolete

Learning Resources

• Daily Developer Tips. I send out a short email each weekday with code snippets, tools, techniques, and interesting stuff from around the web.
• Guides & Courses. Short, focused ebooks and video courses made for beginners. Start building real JavaScript projects in under an hour.
• Vanilla JS Academy. A project-based online JavaScript training program for beginners.

Want more? I also maintain the Vanilla JS Toolkit, host the Vanilla JS Podcast, and give talks and appear on podcasts.

Questions?

If you have questions about anything, or just want to chat more about the Lean Web, send me an email at chris@gomakethings.com.