JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Nov 10, 2020

React is without a doubt one of the most popular front-end JavaScript frameworks / UI libraries around. However, it doesn't mean that it's the best or that everyone likes it. Among some of the more technical reasons behind people disliking React is, surprisingly, one of its bi...

areknawo

Lots of awesome crash-courses on various tech. Usually follows 20/80 rule on theory and practical side respectively. Lately some awesome guest hosts on the channel. High-quality content in various technologies cut down into short videos on a particular topic. Awesome playlists...

Madza

HTML elements like headings , , paragraphs , or simple textual output are meant to display information. On the other side, the forms and input elements like , , collect information from the user. Working with forms and input fields requires more effort: you have to access inpu...

Dmitri Pavlutin

Thanks to the CLI, it is possible to create a basic boilerplate: mkdir typescript-k8s && cd $_ cdktf init --template=typescript --local The cdktf init command is generating the necessary files to get started with: cdktf.json: containing the CDKTF configuration stating explicit...

Francesco Vitullo

If you were born in the 80s and are anything like me, you probably still have a slight obsession with games from the 8-bit era. As I look back, I actually find myself appreciating the music from old Nintendo games more than the actual game in many cases (there were some bad on...

JavaScript In Plain English

Many web apps allow users to export data as CSV. This can be done using JavaScript on the browser. Papaparse is a nice package that prepares the CSV for us. This blog post has the code to show you how to do this. The first step is to install Papaparse....

Vijay T

Imagine a scenario where we need to log something to console at a particular interval when a particular component is mounted. Let me do this in a class component first, We store the timer in an instance variable . We could also have stored the timer in the state but it would c...

DEB

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to redirect to an external URL in React Router. Suppose we have a /contact route in our react app, when a user visits the /contact page we need to redirect them to an external url https://www.google.com/contact/ instead of the ...

Sai gowtham

I've been working in the Software Development industry for over 17 years and I've seen my share of acronyms fly by, some of them making more sense than others, some of them forming funnier words than others....

Bit

Data types and type checking are fundamental aspects of any programming language. Many programming languages like Java have strict type checking. This means that if a variable is defined with a specific type it can contain a value of only that type. JavaScript, however, is a l...

Tapas Adhikary

Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, Gatsby, CSS, and animation....

Josh Comeau

Wondered what developers mean by the terms Pure Functions or Side Effects? And wonder why are they prevalent in the JavaScript ecosystem and pretty important to understand? In this article, I'm going to walk you through these terms of Pure Functions and Side Effects by definin...

JavaScript In Plain English