JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for May 12, 2020

Why am I telling you about webhooks in a post about polling? Well, it's something to keep in mind when you're building a solution for a problem that's potentially solved by both techniques. It may very well be that you don't actually have an option and polling is the only avai...

Bit

Craig and John talk with Domenik Reitzner about Svelte. Can you write less code and build boilerplate-free components using HTML, CSS, and Javascript? What about the lack of cli? What is it really like developing with Svelte and why might someone not want to use Svelte?...

John Papa

Why is the output of ==! // true? Why does a certain combination of brackets, square brackets, exclamation marks and plus signs cause the output 'fail'? What is the baNaNa Joke all about? This entertaining find is about such and other exciting, funny and strange cases....

FrontNet Blog

I have been a Java developer looking to add JavaScript to my stack and wish to become a JavaScript rockstar before end of 2020. I have been learning JavaScript in-depth. However, I have always known JavaScript. Albeit minimally, I can write JavaScript inside tag and manipulate...

Bit

You might know that CSS-in-JS has been growing in popularity recently. Due to better maintainability and flexibility, JavaScript has become a legitimate alternative to usual CSS. Now, I've recently created a new JavaScript UI library called Isotope with a goal of combining hig...

areknawo

Ben Nadel looks at how you can use "expando" properties in an Angular 9.1.6 application in the case where you need to map an HTML DOM (Document Object Model) element to an in-memory value when the standard view-model approach is not sufficient....

Ben Nadel

Drag and drop functionality is a common feature. It creates a more intuitive user flow by letting users grab and drop objects to places where they want them to be. There are countless of JavaScript libraries out there just for this purpose. Include one for......

Ferenc Almasi

Node's File System Module fs allows us to play with files in the operating system. So, what it can help me to do? any type of CRUD operation (Create, Read, Update & Delete) on the system. Creating log files, saving timely weather data from api after a set interval of time, and...

Swetank Raj ⚡#DevFestKol

Semicolons and Automatic Semicolon Insertion are two of the most misunderstood topics in JavaScript. In this tutorial, you will learn about what ASI is. You will also learn about the rules that determine where semicolons are required. This will also help you understand when AS...

Alex Devero

Usually, "the next" version of ECMAScript (JavaScript) refers to a continually moving target just beyond the current snapshot specification. The three features I'm going to talk about in this article......

JavaScript in Plain English

Vue.js is an easy to use web app framework that we can use to develop interactive front end apps. In this article, we'll look at how to add templates to a Vue app, including render functions, JSX, and single-file components. Render functions return elements that are rendered b...

John Au-Yeung

Security is an essential aspect of software development for our web applications, APIs, mobile apps. We either implement our authentication from scratch or use existing libraries. Most frameworks have security module in-built. Authentication entails matching users credential t...

ThankGod Ukachukwu

Because life is more than just coding In the world of developers, there is always a possibility that one day we start to feel tired, uninspired, we start to lose our passion, we'll start to lose that burning desire, and we question ourselves more often, especially when things ...

JavaScript in Plain English

I will walk us though the Home and Widgets Components which, when done, will create a full client-side routable, single page application. But I am going to leave it to you, for practice, to add the Wudgets Component. It is the same as the Widgets. I will, however, include all ...

Gravity Well

All developers writing JavaScript should understand automatic semicolon insertion as it relates to return statements. JS uses automatic semicolon insertion. This means JS engines will execute code and insert any semicolons where it sees fit. One of those spots is after a retur...

Christopher Jeffery