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Building apps without frameworks

Here’s your guide to building serious web applications using the tools built right into the browser. You’ll learn to use “plain vanilla” JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create reusable UI components, a routing system, an installable progressive web app, and a full-featured e-commerce frontend. Each chapter builds real capabilities you can apply anywhere, even when you work with libraries. You’ll soon be delivering dependency-free UX that’s easy to debug and maintain and survive neverending tool churn. [Read more]

6 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!

Developers rightly fear the unintended complexity that infects most code. This book shows you how to write software that keeps complexity close to its inherent minimum. As you write software you should distinguish between code that alters your system’s state, and code that does not. Once you learn to make that distinction, you can refactor much of your state-altering “actions” into stateless “calculations.” Your software will be simpler.  [Read more]

Keeping your object-oriented designs simple demands a creative approach—and that’s exactly what you’ll find here! This book is full of patterns and principles for reducing complexity, each one proven in author Mauricio Aniche’s 20-year career in software development. You’ll learn how to tackle code’s natural growth in complexity, and adopt a “good enough” approach that means it’s easy to refactor when requirements change.  [Read more]

Deliver high-performance games, with code that’s simpler to extend and maintain. You’ll learn to design games from scratch using DOD and also how to apply DOD to existing object-oriented codebases. Through a simulated development process—complete with Jira tickets—you’ll construct a complete “survivor” style game that runs at a high framerate on limited hardware while being easy to expand. [Read more]

10 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!