Commenting JavaScript code is a more nuanced thing than we give it credit for. There are a couple of schools of thought on this. One states that if you feel a comment is necessary, you should rewrite it to be more legible. This is true. But it is also not …
There are many modern JavaScript frameworks out there and it is really to pick the right for someone with no experience with web development. Vue.js is an open-source model–view–viewmodel front end JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications.
JavaScript developers are quick to complain about “JavaScript Fatigue”, the perceived high volatility of libraries, tooling and the JavaScript language itself — yet very few look at these changes and additions as a whole.
When developing web applications with JavaScript locally, it is not uncommon to request data from an API. However, the API might not actually exist yet, or we might want to control what the responses are. Typically, this sort of problem has been solved by either writing a separate mock API …
While the performance of JavaScript engines in browsers have seen continued improvement, the amount of JavaScript served increases unabated. We need to use JavaScript more responsibly, which means we must rely on native browser features where prudent, use HTML and CSS when appropriate, and know when too much JavaScript is …
TypeScript allows infrastructure code to have integrated testing, compile time checks as well as being able to create infrastructure APIs. This talk shows why a real language is more suited to infrastructure management than DSLs, JSON or YAML. In addition, it explains how to build infrastructure that manages Serverless, PaaS …
