JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Oct 27, 2022

Performance optimization is critical for web applications to maintain a solid user experience. In React, there are instances in which re-rendering a complex component leads to performance issues, impacting the user experience. React offers memoization as a performance feature ...

Syncfusion

Astro poses a very interesting premise: you can build your site with whatever framework you choose to use, including, of course, Astro itself. But the "whatever framework you choose to use" part caught my eye, because you can actually mix and match....

Bit

The practice of designing and constructing websites and digital tools in such a way that users of various abilities can use them without difficulty is known as web accessibility. The complexity and dynamic nature of web applications have given rise to a new set of accessibilit...

Bit

When we're working with a multi-layered Vue app, we typically utilize props to transfer data from a parent component to a child component. This has been made simple and easy to perform with Vue.js. However, passing data from a parent-level component to a nested child component...

Upmostly

A common scenario for entering text using web widgets. Typically a rich web widget UI wraps around elements. The library hides the original plain inputs, while showing custom elements and showing formatted text. In this blog post, I will show a typical example from DevExtreme ...

Gleb Bahmutov

Kapehe joins us to talk about her role in developer relations. What does developer relations mean? How does Dev Rel go back to the Product team? Where does video work best for dev rel? And how to deal with criticism of dev rel knowledge....

John Papa

As JSX projects get increasingly complex, we often find ourselves reverse-engineering whole chunks of code to fix or change existing functionality. JavaScript...

Upmostly

I've been writing a bunch of jest tests recently for libraries that use the underlying window.crypto methods like getRandomValues() and window.crypto.subtle key management methods. One problem I run into is that the window.crypto object isn't available, so I need to shim it. T...

David Walsh

The title might sound obvious, but since I started teaching coding, I see developers that, when they don't understand what's going on, thinks there's some sort of magic happening. The aim of these lines is to understand what happens inside the components every time we update t...

JavaScript Kicks

Being an Angular/Typescript developer, you would have often come across this scenario, where the same few lines of code are being repeated across multiple methods. What if those few lines of code are RXJS operators and you want to avoid writing them every time in multiple meth...

JavaScript In Plain English

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. - Martin Fowler NestJS is an open-source node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server side applications. Under the hood, NestJS utilizes express.js f...

Bewar Salah

Finding and testing DevExtreme components without good test selectors. Let's say that you do not control the HTML markup on the page. Finding the elements becomes difficult. How do you select the elements following Cypress querying best practices? In this blog post I will show...

Gleb Bahmutov