S12:E1 - What is vanilla JS and how can it help you (Chris Ferdinandi)

In this episode, we talk about about vanilla JavaScript with Chris Ferdinandi, author of the Vanilla JS Pocket Guide series, and creator of the Vanilla JS Academy training program. Chris talks about how he went from HR professional to JavaScript expert, the pros of getting rid of all that tooling and learning good old fashion vanilla JS, and why this is relevant, not only from a personal perspective, but from a public safety perspective as well. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) Vanilla JS Academy Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guides CSS HTML PHP Stack Overflow WordPress JavaScript Framework React Vue Angular JSX jQuery virtual DOM (VDOM) Preact hyper(HTML) Svelte gzip GitHub MeetSpace Stephanie's Design and Technical Musings Go Make Things: Daily Developer Tips Wes Bos Courses Learn Vanilla JS gomakethings.com/codenewbie PAWS New England