Anti patterns? To what specific style of development? Imperative programming? functional? Class based / MVC / object oriented? Prototypical? This article lacks

Anti patterns? To what specific style of development? Imperative programming? functional? Class based / MVC / object oriented? Prototypical? This article lacks clarity and draws no useful conclusions. "so one obvious improvement would be to use selectors instead of the execrable DOM API" Additionally, DOM API is slow. Wrapping your access to the DOM in additional layers of abstraction isn't a win or "anti pattern". It's a maintenance trade off.