Thinking Inside The Box With Vanilla JavaScript

During the past four or five years of blogging regularly and doing research for other writing projects, Louis Lazaris has come across probably thousands of articles on JavaScript. To him, it seems that a big chunk of these articles can be divided into two very general categories: jQuery and theory and concept articles focused on things like IIFEs, closures and design patterns. Yes, he's likely stumbled upon a ton of other articles that don’t fall into either of these categories or that are more specific. But somehow it feels that most of the ones that really get pushed in the community fall under one of the two categories above.

He thinks those articles are great, and hopes we see more of them. But sometimes the simplest JavaScript features are sitting right under our noses and we just haven’t had a lot of exposure to them. He's talking about native, more-or-less cross-browser features that have been in the language for some time.

So, in this article, he won’t be talking about jQuery, and he won’t be looking at structural code concepts or patterns. Instead, he's going to introduce you to some pure JavaScript features that you can use today and that you might not have ever considered before.