JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Dec 8, 2022

Before developing your web application, a decision has to be made which framework or library to use. It is not a secret that React is the most popular JavaScript library in the world. Clear proof of that is the popularity diagram below: A good popularity measurement is communi...

Bit

In the previous article in this series we discussed a very useful pattern; Composition and how we can use it to compose bigger systems out of smaller granular units. In this article we'll be talking about Functors! Functors A Problem The Maybe Functor Solving The Problem Using...

Bit

The other day, I pontificated on the wildly subjective nature of programming. We all have things that we like and don't like; and, it seems almost futile to try and persuade people to move against their own realities. And yet, we - as a community - seem to want to keep doing t...

Ben Nadel

How a Cypress test can control the beforeEach hook behavior. Imagine that we have a Cypress project with end-to-end tests and a support file. The support file has the beforeEach hooks common to all spec files. Every e2e spec file is affected by the e2e support file, since it l...

Gleb Bahmutov

A product is first an idea, then a project, and then a prototype. It is tested, refined, and localized so that it is accessible to users in different regions. When the product is released into the world, these users need to be supported....

Mozilla Hacks

How to both simulate a slow-loading plugin and to wait for it to load from a Cypress test. Imagine a page that uses jQuery plugins. For example, the page might look something like this: We are loading jQuery and the application code....

Gleb Bahmutov

In this article, we're going to learn how to easily convert a decimal number to its hexadecimal equivalent in JavaScript. And we'll look at some real-world scenarios where we'll need to do this. To convert a decimal to hex in JavaScript, call the toString() method on the decim...

Coding Beauty

Let's say you want to generate a random number between 10 and 15 - how do you do that in JavaScript? I'll show you how with examples in this article. In JavaScript, there's the random method of the Math object which returns random numbers. But this has a range limitation....

Dillion Megida 🚀