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