General JavaScript tutorial or video
Actor improvisation rules are a good approach to dealing with the unexpected in comedy or anything else. Error handling in JavaScript, for example. The way JavaScript deals with exceptions is already a little unpredictable. Instead of fighting that, let’s take advantage of it to create better user experiences, more powerful …
After giving a brief overview of JavaScript inheritance basics, this talk delves into advanced topics and answers questions such as the following ones: What is the difference between constructor inheritance and instance inheritance? What is the property `constructor` about? How does the `instanceof` operator really work? How does one reference …
Ember.js is a JS framework based on established conventions that allows writing complex applications with a small amount of code. Ember-data is the component that connects this framework with a REST API. Unfortunately, the conventions followed by its community are not compatible with Tastypie, one of the most widely used …
Data.js is a data representation framework for Javascript. It is being developed in the context of Substance, a web-based document authoring and publishing engine. It took some inspiration from various existing libraries such as the Google Visualization API or Underscore.js.
JavaScript is well on its way to become the dominant general-purpose programming language. The present looks good and the future looks even better: Many of the things that people currently complain about will be fixed by the next version of ECMAScript (code-named ECMAScript.next). We’ll also look at steps to improve …
JavaScript is one of those very powerful languages that is often misunderstood and underutilized. It is quite popular, yet there is so much more we can do with it. In this presentation we will deep dive into the capabilities and strengths of this prominent language of the web.
