The document discusses techniques for writing clean JavaScript code. It provides examples of code smells and improvements to address issues like attaching events from the outside, separating selection from logic, shallow scope, overwriting default behavior, and separating logic from views. The document advocates for practices like modularizing functions, separating DOM manipulation from models, and creating model objects to represent DOM elements rather than directly manipulating the DOM. It encourages learning clean JavaScript techniques to write better structured and more maintainable code.