Home search Collections Sign in or create an account Medium site navigation Jenn Schiffer on Jul 17 3 min Info History Cancel Publish changes Don’t write alone Copy and send this draft link to anyone. They’ll be able to leave you notes before you publish. Featured post Next in trending Jenn Schiffer in CSS Perverts 3 min read Several hours ago I made a controversial decision to leave Node and go back to vanilla JavaScript. This proved to be an overly ambitious move that I sincerely regret, as vanilla JavaScript, unfortunately, is not backwards compatible from Node. This was quite a road block for me, since I have been spoiled by large efforts to retain backwards compatibility in open source projects like WordPress and My Library. I had to quickly change my route and go with another language that I knew had a large community in contrast to vanilla JavaScript — which was lacking in suppor...