112 | Modern Best Practices are Hurting the Web

Chris joins James and Amy to show his love for vanilla JavaScript and why returning back to the basics maybe the best thing for developers.

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Show Notes

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:18 Why Vanilla JavaScript?
• 02:39 Difficult Interview Questions
• 04:01 Patterns and Conventions
• 06:31 Code Generators
• 10:45 Recreating Libraries?
• 13:56 Proxies
• 24:46 Testing
• 26:24 Why Svelte is Different
• 33:33 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 34:18 Local Storage
• 40:51 Web and Service Workers
• 43:28 Chris's Course Platform
• 50:50 Sponsor: Daily.dev
• 51:51 Picks and Plugs