Podcast 402: Teaching developers about the most lightweight web “framework” around, VanillaJS
We chat with Chris Ferdinandi, affectionately known as the VanillaJS guy. He has a newsletter, podcast, eBooks, and courses all trying to teach people to use more resilient and simple browser-native JavaScript free of the complications that come from elaborate frameworks.
Episode notes
What exactly is VanillaJS? Tongue-in-cheek, it’s the most lightweight JavaScript framework out there and used by pretty much every website on the internet. Seriously though, it’s just JavaScript…without a framework.
If you’re interested in reading and learning more about JavaScript, Chris has a bevy of courses and eBooks over at vanillajsguides.com.
Like Chris’s ideas so much you want to subscribe to his newsletter? Right over this way!
Since you are a connoisseur of podcasts, check out Chris’s own at vanillajspodcast.com.
Chris has kindly put together a collection of resources for listeners like you at gomakethings.com/overflow.
This week’s Lifeboat badge goes to prograils for their answer to How can I read the number of lines in Fortran 90 from a text file?
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3 Comments
Should be vanillaTS. Please, let’s make our projects sane again for other des.
Also, we should strive for the same on the server. Native Node.js (+TS) minimizes the insanity of npm.
speak for yourself, I hate Typescript with a passion… literally the most over hyped thing in the Javascript world… TS severely decreases code readability while also increasing development time and complexity while barely offering any benefits… it just baffles me that even though it was factually proven that testing (of any kind) is way better than using TS there still are so many people that hype this thing…
Hi!
You have linked http://vanilla-js.com/ as a reference, but it is created by Eric Wastl ( https://twitter.com/ericwastl ) and it is completely independent site.