JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Apr 14, 2020

Your mobile website can be more appealing to mobile users by going beyond css style optimization As of 2020, internet traffic is around half mobile and half desktop. Google looks to your mobile website version to determine at what position to rank your pages when it indexes....

JavaScript Kicks

Microfrontends are becoming more popular each day. One of the reasons is that microfrontends offer a way out of the framework prison. While this may be a good reason for adopting microfrontends, it should not be the only (let alone best) reason....

Bit

Can't go to a conference? Let the conference come to you! Join JS VidCon - a virtual conference where developers from all over the world can share and gain knowledge from the comfort of their own home! ...

JS VidCon

Particle animations belong to the most impressive animations that exist. In this article, Anna Prenzel will explain how you can to easily program a small trail of particles with anime.js. Have you ever thought about distracting visitors of your website with a fancy, glittering...

Smashing Magazine

As a huge fan of media on the web, I'm always excited about enhancements to how we can control our media. Maybe I get excited about simple things like the tag and its associated elements and attributes because media on the web started with custom codecs, browser extensions, an...

David Walsh

Christina Warren talks with us about the state of developer life on macOS, why you might choose a Mac over a Windows PC, what Homebrew is and why you should consider using it, thoughts on macOS Catalina, and what a dot file is....

John Papa

Combine the power of TypeScript and MongoDB to create a scalable, production-grade database MongoDB is a versatile NoSQL database, commonly paired with Node.js. Instead of tables and rows, it uses collections and documents to store data. But what makes it so versatile - the fa...

Bret Cameron

Working with the built-in Math.random() method Whether for performance testing or any other purpose, it is sometimes useful to generate pseudorandom numbers. "The Math.random() function returns a floating-point, pseudo-random number in the range 0 to less than 1 (inclusive of ...

Dr. Derek Austin 🥳

Learn Angular's NgModule In this article, I will share my understanding of Angular Modules by: What is NgModule? ngModule code example NgModule scope in Angular Popular Angular modules Using a Common Module for Sharing Lazy-loaded Module for Load Times A module is a mechanism ...

transonhoang

Testing our applications can be tedious and time consuming, which is why we write automated tests in order to ensure our code works, without us needing to spend exorbitant amounts of time doing this ourselves. However, how do we test for a variable that changes during the exec...

Alex Pickering

Use the design tool of your choice to create the visuals in your app and to define which buttons lead to which pages. Most tools will also let you preview this navigation as if you're using the app (without any functionality more complex than navigation) which can help you cat...

Bit

About a week ago, I've announced my new, open-source JavaScript UI library called Isotope. Overall, the launch wasn't anything spectacular, but I've gained enough feedback to know what to improve upon....

areknawo

A handpicked list of repos that'll help you become a better all-around developer GitHub is the leading Git repository hosting service, which contains source code of many code repositories, libraries, etc. I recently wrote an article on GitHub Repos for web developers, which yo...

Mahdhi Rezvi

👋 Emberistas! 🐹 Destroyables RFC in final comment period 💬, Ember Engines documentation rewrite ⚙️, Ember Octane at Square 💻, check out new Ember CLI documentation 📚, introducing qunit-wait-for ⏰, and last, but not least, power up your Ember app with ember-glue ✨! The Des...

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The nullish coalescing operator is a new logical operator. Behind the strange name is an important new feature, an interesting operator in ES2020, and a great addition to JavaScript. One of the most common practices for setting a variable's default value is by using the OR (||...

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