basic principles front-end programming

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Idea: basic principles front end development

The stuff that is evergreen: basic facts and techniques

The web moves fast. Decouple the fads from the basic principles that don't change.

This could be a short book that teaches you how to think.

• Event loop: implicit multi threading
• DOM as tree structure
• How to debug: find the class or other attribute
• Where to put data: DOM or JS
  • DOM: jQuery-ish approach
  • JS: better for bigger things
• The JS - DOM connection: pointers to els

Maybe break it into beginner, intermediate, advanced level stuff.

• The DOM is slow; avoid touching it (store things on the JS side instead)
  • Throttling and debouncing