Returning sanity to the webdev process

In this episode, we talk to Chris Ferdinandi believes that many of our modern best practices are harming the web.

Chris has ideas for a new set of best practices that bring more simplicity and sanity to the dev process. They involve such heretical idea as not using the popular JavaScript frameworks, and using vanilla JavaScript instead.

We also delve into static site generators, and how the complexity that frontend development has morphed into creates exclusionary “gatekeeping”.

• GoMakeThings.com
• Chris Ferdinandi on Twitter
• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
• The Cost of JavaScript
• The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch
• @pika/web
• Rian Rietveld resigns from WordPress accessibility team
• LoadJS
• The Great Divide
• Split
• Forestry

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