JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for May 4, 2022

Ken Wheeler, Tejas Kumar, Sara Vieira, Tanner Linsley – these are just a few of the names coming to this year’s React Summit, the biggest React conference worldwide. Discover the future of the React and meet thousands of front-end and full-stack engineers! The format of the e...

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Updating the DOM and repainting the UI is expensive, so React uses a virtual representation of the real DOM, kept in memory and synced with the real DOM, to optimize the changes needed and improve the performance of the application. Whenever the UI is updated with new elements...

Bit

Directives are one of the most important concepts in Angular, In this section, we will see what is a directive and its types and how to create our own directives Directives are classes that add new behavior or modify the existing behavior to the elements in the template....

Bit

As of April 2022 LernaJS is no longer maintained. Created by Henry Zhu, Lerna's goal was to automate the workflow of creating and publishing multiple packages for the same javascript repository. That is to say, not to build a "monolith" in the traditional since of the words wh...

Jonathan Saring

Checking if the window data layer method call was called with an expected argument. Here is a question that came from (deprecated) Cypress Gitter chat channel. The user provided a repo with a reproducible test that tried to assert that window.dataLayer.push method was called w...

Gleb Bahmutov

In JavaScript, the same syntax - triple dots (...) - is used for two different mechanisms: Rest syntax is for receiving data. Spreading is for sending data. This blog post examines how these mechanisms work and why they are not operators....

Axel Rauschmayer

Bootstrap offers tons of custom UI solutions. On top of that, it is easy to use and implement in React. If you are willing to know how to implement Bootstrap Modal dialog in React, then this step-by-step guide is for you....

Digamber Singh

Hi everyone! In this short article we're going to talk about prototypal inheritance in JavaScript, and what are the implications of it. Table of Contents * Intro * How to access a prototype's properties and methods in JavaScript * The prototype chain * A prototype-based language...

German Cocca

So in the previous blog post, we looked at how the this keyword works in JavaScript. Every function gets the this keyword automatically and the way it works is that anytime a function is invoked, the keyword points to the current execution context. So its value will depend upo...

JavaScript In Plain English

The great Angular team has released two RFCs about it already, and with the latest next release of Angular 14, specifically CLI 14.0.0-next.12 and Core 14.0.0-next.15, we get a real look at what is coming next. When you generate a new project using: npx @angular/cli@next new n...

JavaScript In Plain English

For all the Star Wars fans ... May the 4th be with you (imagine a Mike Tyson voice over). On a more "right now" note though, have you checked out the "JSNation Conference 2022" yet? You should.

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