Blog / Javascript

Here’s a quick trick to display content as accordions on mobile but as static content on desktop, using the details html tag. Read more

This is a fantastic article by Jared White exploring all the numerous lies we’ve been told about how great JS frameworks are and how much time and work they save. Definitely worth a read. Read more

In Chris Ferdinandi latest Daily Tips newsletter he talks about web performance, and React in particular. I’ve never been a fan of using bloated frameworks. Whenever I have used a React-built website, I’ve always come across a cache issue where I have to hard refresh a few times. This could be poor development, or a product of the framework, but either way it’s bad design. Read more

With the early return pattern, you check for the opposite of the thing you want, and return early to end the function when that’s the case. Read more