JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Aug 3, 2020

The Promise object has many useful functions like all, resolve, reject, and race - stuff we use all the time. One function that many don't know about is Promise.allSettled, a function that fires when all promises in an array are settled, regardless of whether any of the promis...

David Walsh

Hey, Sunil here! 😀 Happy Monday! I hope you are continuing to stay as safe as possible during these turbulent times. Here's the Best Bits from the past week! The latest video of Decoded has arrived! Here we show real life examples of where you could use Bind, Call, and Apply ...

Sunil Sandhu

The core Alpine.js functionality beyond toggling visibility, displaying data in HTML textContent and binding HTML attributes to data is listening for events using Alpine.js. Listening to events with x-on is usually coupled with state updates, for example we can create the foll...

Hugo Di Francesco

JavaScript has two similar, yet different, ways to compare data types. You can either test equality with == or ===. Triple Equals When using triple equals=== in JavaScript, we test for both the type and the value we are comparing have to be the same....

Anubhav Srivastava

async...await syntax only appeared in JavaScript recently - it was introduced in ECMAScript 2017. However, it still remains a bit of mystery. Most articles I read state that async…await is syntactic sugar over JavaScript promises. But what does that mean exactly? Are asyn...

Sergey Stadnik

Fret not, for there is rhyme & reason to this madness! Stressed out about interviews and your progress in achieving algorithmic godliness? No worries, I'm here to give you New Hope. Frequency counting pattern - You can use an object/map to collect a value and its frequency, th...

gitconnected

No one asks why we need possibility to write functions, it's obvious and very helpful thing in programming. Functions help to make reusable code, it gives better modularity for your application. Why not to use the same thing in templates of components, nowadays many frameworks...

JavaScript in Plain English

Security within video chat applications is a hot topic at the moment. As remote working and virtual events become more prolific, the need for security will increase. Within the Agora Platform, one layer of security comes in the form of token authentication....

Hermes Frangoudis

👋 Emberistas! 🐹 Ember 3.20 Released 🚀, a series of blog posts on ember-modifer and its internals 🎉, detect when Ember components enter or leave the viewport 🔍, a blog post and RFC on Ember.Component 📖, and last, but not least, document Ember apps with Docfy 📗!...

EmberJS

Mikeal and Chris welcome (back) special guest Fred K. Schott, who you may recall from our episode on Pika. This time, we're talking ESM: what it is, what's new about it, why it's the future, writing libraries with it, and much more....

JS Party

Can you use JavaScript to check if your app is connected to the internet? In this article, I'll provide an updated answer to this Internet connection detection question. (Whew! Say that fast five times!) The solution will use JavaScript's Fetch API and asynchronous code with A...

Dave Gray

Bootstrap 5 [http://v5.getbootstrap.com/] is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. In case you didn't know, Bootstrap 5 alpha has been officially launched [https://themesberg.com/blog/bootstrap/bootstrap-version-5-...

Zoli Szőgyényi

I had written a Svelte component that accepted a prop, and I wanted to destructure some variables from that prop. But I wanted this destructuring to be reactive, so that the variables would update if the prop updated. My code looked something like this: The first problem here ...

Dave Ceddia

Position and Align Text inside a react-blessed Element This is the 7th post in a series where we will be creating a developer dashboard in the terminal using react-blessed and react-blessed-contrib. For more information about the series and to take a sneak peak at what we're b...

Elijah Manor