To hell with jQuery
summary
Argues that styling and many animations should move from jQuery into native CSS — CSS3 gives hardware-accelerated animations and runs in C++ so it’s faster, with roughly 80% support for animations; notes some things remain impossible in CSS, e.g. the parent selector missing; recommends tiny modular libraries or native Node over big frameworks, cites Express’s dependency bloat and suggests choosing micro frameworks and actually reading the codebase before adopting.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to speaker
- 1:00Designer vs developer
- 3:15Operators and engineers
- 5:57Benefits of reading code
- 9:01jQuery and CSS analysis
- 12:22Node and Express
- 13:37Principles of good design
- 15:36Optimization and diversity
- 17:34Extensibility and future
- 18:29Conclusion and call to action
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