Plain Vanilla Blog

The richness of HTML continues to be a delightful surprise.

Design has never been the part of building for the web that I felt comfortable with.

Previously in the history of web application architecture I covered the different ways that people have tried to build web applications, and how all of them came with their own unique set of drawbacks.

I'm old enough to remember what it was like.

The main Plain Vanilla tutorial explains two ways of doing client-side routing.

I like React.

There are some things that a web developer knows they shouldn't attempt.

Web components, a.k.a. custom elements, are HTML elements that participate in HTML markup.

Today I was looking at what I want to write about in the coming year, and while checking out custom element micro-frameworks came across import.meta.resolve in the documentation for the Ponys micro-framework.

If you go to a typical website built with a framework, you'll see a lot of this: Those long cryptic filenames are not meant to discourage casual snooping.

I'm typing this up in Visual Studio Code, after realizing I should probably explain how I use it to make this site.

In the earlier article the unreasonable effectiveness of vanilla JS I explained a vanilla web version of the React tutorial example Scaling up with Reducer and Context.

Ryan Carniato shared a hot take a few days ago, Web Components Are Not the Future.

I have a confession to make.

When first taught about the wave-particle duality of light most people's brains does a double take.

I was reading Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh's book Building Large Scale Web Apps.

Author's note This article initially had somewhat different results and conclusions, but deficiencies in the original benchmark were pointed out and addressed.

Web components have their malcontents.

Signals are all the rage right now.

Good enough When I made the first version of the Plain Vanilla website, there were things that I would have liked to spend more time on, but that I felt didn't belong in a Good Enough™ version of the site.