JavaScript is the CO2 of the web (JS Party #80)

KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.

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Featuring:

• Chris Ferdinandi – Website, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Segment 1:

• Artifact conference
• The split - article on JS for server
• When is vanilla JS vanilla
• Svelte
• The “Developer Experience” Bait and Switch

Segment 2:

• Eloquent JavaScript
• Wes Bos
• Brad Frost
• Jeremy Keith
• Sara Soueidan
• Article on knowing what to focus on

Segment 3:

• Array Reduce
• Polyfill.io
• Eric Elliot
• James Sinclair
• You Don’t Know JS
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
• Programming as Translation
• URLSearchParams
• FormData

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!