274: Vanilla JS with Chris Ferdinandi

August 1st 2017 Download MP3

We're talking with Chris Ferdinandi about Javascript, specifically Vanilla Javascript, and what that means on the web in 2017.

Tags: Javascript VanillaJS

Guests

3:00 Why Vanilla in the name?
17:10 AJAX vs Javascript
25:20 Why should you get rid of jQuery?
30:00 What do you use for teaching?
33:00 It's not the removal of frameworks that we're worried about, it's the long term maintenance of the app that we're concerned with.
34:50 Do you reach for a state management framework or start with Vanilla Javascript first?
46:00 What about AJAX? Should I reach for Fetch?
48:40 Is ES6 the obvious future?