Chris Ferdinandi

The Vanilla JS Guy

Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript, and believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web.

Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript, and believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web.

He creates courses and ebooks and runs online workshops. He also maintains a JavaScript toolkit and hosts a podcast. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of developers each weekday.

He’s taught developers at organizations like Salesforce and the Boston Globe, and his JavaScript libraries have been used used by Apple and Harvard Business School.

His ideas on building a simpler, faster world-wide web were featured in Net Magazine. Chris Coyier, the founder of CSS-Tricks and CodePen, has described his writing as “infinitely quote-worthy.”

Chris loves pirates, puppies, and Pixar movies, and lives near horse farms in rural Massachusetts.