Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies or are They Controlling You?

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F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9351-5_4

4. Managing DOM Events

Francesco Strazzullo¹  

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

In the last chapter, you learned about rendering or, more generally, how to draw DOM elements that match your data. But a web application is not a painting; its contents change over time. The cause of these changes is events.

Events, even though they are created by the user or the system, are a crucial aspect of the DOM API. This chapter aims to explain how to manage these events in a frameworkless application.

The first part of the chapter is an introduction to the DOM Events API. You will learn ...