The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast

A show about JavaScript for people who hate the complexity of modern front‑end web development, hosted by Chris Ferdinandi.

🚀 For detailed tutorials, projects, and source code, check out my Vanilla JS Pocket Guides and Videos.

Latest Episodes

Episode 16 The Lean Web (34:15)
Episode 15 The developer experience is bullshit (6:30)
Episode 14 How to be a great JavaScript developer (5:14)
Episode 13 Why I still use XHR instead of the Fetch API (13:25)
Episode 12 How to plan out your JavaScript projects (5:34)
Episode 11 Alternatives to CSS-in-JS (15:05)
Episode 10 What's wrong with CSS-in-JS? (14:28)
Episode 9 You don't have to know everything (3:06)
Episode 8 Learning how to think in JavaScript (8:03)
Episode 7 The problem with "just use jQuery" (5:17)
Episode 6 The benefits of using a JavaScript framework (seriously) (3:24)
Episode 5 You're not a fraud (2:06)
Episode 4 Easter sale! (3:10)
Episode 3 What you need to know to be a good developer (3:23)
Episode 2 Polyfills are awesome (and you are, too) (5:54)
Episode 1 I <3 vanilla JS (3:40)

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