JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Apr 15, 2020

By using a "simple-first" approach, front-end developers can create a healthier internet The last couple of years have not been pretty for the tech industry. With the average user growing more wary of how their online data is being used and more frustrated by disruptive online...

JavaScript Kicks

IDE integrations, Github bots, issue trackers and much more - to help you make the most out of GitHub. GitHub is probably one of the best-known platforms in our community and most likely, one of the most used ones (being right up there next to others like Stackoverflow)....

Bit

JSON is probably one of the most underrated programming language in existence. Not only is it so widespread, it's lightweight and no-nonsense demeanor makes JSON feel almost native to whichever......

Aphinya Dechalert

In this blog post, we explore classes as values: What types should we use for such values? What are the use cases for these types? Consider the following class: This function accepts a class and creates an instance of it: What type should we use for the parameter TheClass if w...

Axel Rauschmayer

Among the many useful features introduced in ES6, few have the power to knock off as many lines of traditional JavaScript code as the spread operator and destructuring assignment syntax. In ES5, for example, you may have required a dedicated function to filter out unique values....

Bret Cameron

Angular is a popular front-end framework made by Google. Like other popular front-end frameworks, it uses a component-based architecture to structure apps. In this article, we'll look at how to update values in the form group and use FormBuilder ....

John Au-Yeung

Here are my favorite shorthands that provide less & clearer code. And not only in React.js Especially in JSX, code can quickly become confusing, although this is exactly where JSX should help. But the many & detailed JavaScript expressions offer a certain risk, which we can mi...

JavaScript in Plain English

As an ex-Rubyist, I always liked to work with Ruby dates (mental note: not the timezone part). I liked the human way on how Ruby and Rails provide methods to handle the Date object. In Ruby, we can get the current date by doing: This is pretty cool!...

TK

Looking to share code between your Vue components? If you're familiar with Vue 2, you've probably used a mixin for this purpose. But the new Composition API, which is available now as a plugin for Vue 2 and an upcoming feature of Vue 3, provides a much better solution....

CSS-Tricks

Sometimes, you might want to add a property to an interface that is defined outside of your application. I find myself needing to augment the global Window type every now and then in some of my web projects. Typically, I'll do that to statically type a global variable present ...

Marius Schulz

Node.js is a popular runtime to write apps in JavaScript. To make maintaining them easier, we've to set some guidelines for people to follow. In this article, we'll look at how to document APIs and gracefully exit processes. We can build our API using GraphQL libraries....

John Au-Yeung

Unlike other React animation libraries like React Spring or React Reveal, React Transition Group "exposes simple components useful for defining entering and exiting transitions...it does not animate styles by itself. Instead it exposes transition stages, manages classes and gr...

Bit

Javascript is a client-side programming language that has changed the Internet as we know it today. The term "client side" means that it runs on our web browser without the need for a web hosting. Along with html and css it is one of the 3 pillars of web design....

MA-NO WebDesign&Dev

Hooks are a handy addition to the React API that allow us to organize some of our logic and state in function components. How can we build a custom hook and share it with the rest of the world? React hooks in simple terms are functions....

freeCodeCamp.org

And how to convert it to class based inheritance Before starting with prototypal inheritance let's first understand what prototype is. All the objects in the JavaScript like Array, Boolean, Date etc all inherit properties and methods from their prototype....

JavaScript in Plain English