JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Nov 19, 2020

Ben Nadel shares the 300 lines-of-code that will eliminate all external date/time libraries in his AngularJS 1.2.22 applications. This covers formatting, adding, diffing, and calculating relative durations; and, is a translation of the same class in his Angular 11 applications....

Ben Nadel

Did you ever tried using localStorage in your node js project and got an undefined error? Of course, you will get an undefined error because node js is a server-side technology and localStorage is a client-side feature available only in the browser....

Manish Mandal

Are you building an application that involves drawing and selecting colors with React? If so, you may be familiar with React Color, a collection of color picker components for React that mimics the color picker from popular applications like Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome, and many...

Bit

I have seen people stumble and have a lot of trouble trying to get React components to behave correctly because they are trying to force a round peg into a square hole, and program their React components like you would program directly on the DOM with JavaScript and event hand...

Martin Capodici

Version 11 of angular is here and we've got some interesting updates to check out. In this short article I'll walk you through the most significant new features you need to know about and point out why you may or may not want to update your project....

Nicholas Namusanga

Vue implements a content distribution API inspired by the Web Components spec draft, using the element to serve as distribution outlets for content. Slot Content - Content written within parent template. This content will get rendered in the allotted placeholder of the child t...

Prasad Jayakumar

Static websites are as old as the web itself, but the rise of JavaScript has opened the door to make those static sites more dynamic. While that can include building an HTML file by hand, how can we leverage static generation to build apps with modern tools?...

Colby Fayock

How can creating custom event listeners be useful in your code base? JavaScript in browser environment uses an Event Driven Architecture. What it means is we can execute our code in response to certain user behaviours like clicking a button or focusing an input....

JavaScript In Plain English

Exactly 10 years ago today, I was starting my first job in the software industry. There are a bunch of things I wish I would have known before I started. Or at least I wish I would have learned them sooner than I did. I made a list with the top ten!...

Alex Lakatos

Recently, I've been playing around with Svelte and I am amazed at how simple and easy it is to understand. There is also very little boilerplate code, so you can get right to coding with minimal headwind....

JavaScript In Plain English

As engineers, we want our applications to be decoupled from each other and follow an architecture that's distributed in different parts or services. This makes it easy to disintegrate, replace, or remove different parts without affecting the overall functionality of the applic...

Saeed Ahmad