Code Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

Learn about code Simplicity and Complexity in this video: How to achieve KISS? How to lower complexity? What is complexity?

This video was heavily inspired by Rich Hickey's talk Simple Made Easy: www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ - I added my own thoughts and made it all apply to the world of Frontend and JavaScript developers.

Source code: gist.github.com/branneman/35955ac5518ee5db97c6a6f7…

0:00 Intro
0:23 What is Complexity?
2:37 Lowering Complexity
3:00 Immutability
4:31 Declarative code
6:09 Mutable state
7:25 Inheritance
8:25 Syntax
11:05 Collections
12:43 TDD
14:15 Summary