Could you please go more in depth about "functional-style hooks ... before the framework madness"? I'd be interested in reading your thoughts as a newbie JS dev currently studying backbone/angular/jquery and other libraries.
I believe that what he meant (Correct me if I'm wrong), is that instead of creating a system of classes that tries to abstract everything out of the DOM, it's better act on the DOM itself, via jQuery, Zepto.js, etc.
In some ways, what I showed in the post is functional.
