Serious question, do you write JS code professionally? I mean, the more you know about JS the better, I agree, but writing plain is a daunting task, and your bo

Serious question, do you write JS code professionally? I mean, the more you know about JS the better, I agree, but writing plain is a daunting task, and your bound to get a lot of things wrong. It's not a well defined language with one authoritative guide like many others, the ecosystem is pretty crazy. Example of a raw JS ajax call: http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-make-ajax-requests-with-raw-javascript--net-4855 http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-make-ajax-requests-... Have you tried doing dom manipulations that is consistent across all browsers? This is what you would have to do every time you need to select a class: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3808886/463065 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3808886/463065 I agree that most devs should know more about JS than blindly rely on every tool, but still, right now, tools are driving web development speed to new standards.