JS UX: Writing code for humans
summary
Argues that code is a user interface and gives concrete API rules backed by running examples and production experience: sensible defaults, named-option objects, chainable returns, avoiding boilerplate. Cites tools and demos: fetch API replaces verbose XHR, proxies enable transparent getters/setters, intersection observer cuts a UI rendering bottleneck, CSS variables and web components enable HTML APIs, and a new open-source Mavericks language is released two weeks ago. Claims dozens of OSS projects and thousands of merged pull requests as evidence.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:58What is JS UX
- 3:57The UI
- 5:38Code is UI
- 7:04Documentation
- 10:37SVG DOM
- 13:50Sensible defaults
- 15:42Requiring boilerplate
- 17:32IndexDB
- 18:12Robustness Principle
- 19:00URL Constructor
- 19:33Set Constructor
- 20:48Set Attributes
- 25:52Data Object
- 34:39Parameters
- 42:26Error conditions
- 45:11Double negatives
- 48:01Redundancy
- 53:11Mutation observers
- 56:54String and regex
