Paul Moore

I've been hovering around the edges of the Javascript world. But I think I need to go in deeper. I want to write small library. Not worried about distributing it (it'll end up copied into a webpage), but I want to do testing, executable scripts to exercise the code, etc. So I need stuff like pytest for Javascript, and a standalone runtime to execute .js files. I assume I need node.js. Where's a good place to learn just enough for "scripting" usage, not getting sucked into web stuff/frameworks?

I'm looking for some guidelines on how to write simple single-page webapps. No frameworks, node.js, or build steps, just HTML, CSS, Javascript.

Until now, I've been dumping everything in one handwritten .html file. But it's getting unwieldy, and I don't know how best to structure things for maintainability, while still avoiding the "flavour of the month" web frameworks.

Does anyone have any good pointers, before I start reinventing the wheel?