JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Aug 5, 2020

Nowadays, CLIs have better designs and are much easier to work with. Even their functionality has been extended a lot. CLIs are no longer limited to hardcore programmers anymore. In this article, we talk about how to build a CLI tool using React. We discuss two libraries that ...

Bit

For all my React Native tutorials, I intend to use Expo as baseline, because it just makes things so much easier when developing an app with React Native. If you want to follow my tutorials about React Native, you should get this setup right....

Robin Wieruch

This article will take you through how to build a Svelte-powered static blog with Sapper and Strapi, as well as how to deploy the website to Netlify. You'll understand how to build a static website, as well as use the power of a headless CMS, with a real-world example....

Smashing Magazine

You might think that encodeURI and encodeURIComponent do the same thing, at least from their names. And you might be confused which one to use and when. In this article, I will demystify the difference between encodeURI and encodeURIComponent. What is a URI and how is it diffe...

shruti kapoor

There is a high possibility that a lot of components in your React application will have to make calls to an API to retrieve data that will be displayed to your users. It's already possible to do that using the componentDidMount() lifecycle method, but with the introduction of...

JavaScript in Plain English

Errors and bugs are a fact of life. There's no way to avoid them. The only thing we can do is to minimize the chances of them by: UI testing is a technique used to test the graphical user interface......

Bit

The simplest way, yet not entirely accurate, to mentally model the JavaScript strings is by a sequence of characters like letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. The string in the following code sample consists of 5 letters and an exclamation mark: Thinking about strings as a...

Dmitri Pavlutin

We know that having more than one source of truth can only result in madness. But something I encountered in several front-end codebases is the repetition of style constants (colors, fonts, sizes) in CSS and in JS....

gitconnected

If you were starting a new React project a few years ago, that almost always meant that you'd include Redux. React and Redux were thought to be one indivisible entity. When I was learning React myself I did that with the help of Stephen Grider's excellent course Modern React w...

Frontend Weekly

It's August, normally the busiest time of year for tourism. Since most can't travel, let's get busy doing other things! How about learning about making copies of arrays? Sergey Stadnik shows us how in "How to make a copy of an array in JavaScript."

In a few other ...

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