JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Feb 8, 2023

Map and Object are used in JavaScript to store data as dynamic collections of key-value pairs. Since Map is inherited from Object, there are some similarities between the two entities, and prototype functions of Object can be utilized in Map....

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The Critical Rendering Path are the steps the browser goes through to convert the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into pixels on the screen. The critical rendering path includes the Document Object Model (DOM), CSS Object Model (CSSOM), render tree and layout. The DOM is created as ...

Bit

ChatGPT has been a hot topic lately, and with good reason, after all, it's doing a great job at fulfilling all of our requests. And while it's not the perfect code-generation tool as I've explained before, it definitely does a fantastic job if you ask it to write some words in...

Bit

In the past, before the rise of microservices, engineering organizations used monolithic architecture to build their business-critical applications. This often involved using basic infrastructure patterns, such as a single application server communicating with a single databas...

Lakindu Hewawasam

Environment variables are variables defined outside of the JavaScript execution environment. There's a set of environment variables defined by the OS, for example: USER: the current user HOME: the current user's home path PWD: the current working directory PATH: directories to...

Dmitri Pavlutin

Before the process itself begins, the JS code needs to be loaded - once the browser's HTML parser reaches the relevant script tag. This can be done through the network, from a cache or through a service worker. At this point, the JS code is represented as a stream of bytes....

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The Fetch API is a modern and efficient way to retrieve resources from a server. It is an interface that provides a unified way to fetch resources from different sources. Fetch makes sending HTTP requests, including GET and POST, easy and handles responses asynchronously. Howe...

Dwayne Charrington

Netlify is a popular web development platform that makes it easier to build, deploy, and manage websites. You can use Netlify to host websites, and it helps you update and release new changes. It also provides additional features such as security, user authentication and autho...

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In this blog post, we'll explore what data binding is and why it is important in React. Data binding is a process of connecting data between a component and its UI representation. It means that any changes made to the data will automatically reflect in the UI, and vice versa....

Rahul⚡️

Learn how to craft audio reactive shaders with Three.js and Shaderpark....

Codrops

Recently, I played with ArrowJS - a tiny reactive web framework that uses JavaScript for everything. Here is a typical "counter" application code. 1234567891011import { reactive, html &...

Gleb Bahmutov

React Hooks are a way to add state and other React features to functional components. Prior to React Hooks, state and other features were only available in class components. Hooks make it possible to write functional components that can manage their own state and lifecycle met...

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