JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Jan 6, 2021

People often talk about ideas as something that happens in an instant. Like they're Eureka moments. In marketing, people reduce them to single events in time. It makes, of course, for a better story. In reality, the best ideas are almost always the product of a longer thought ...

Bit

It's not that there is something wrong with JavaScript's classes, but if you've been working with the language for a while, especially if you've worked with ES5 before, you've probably seen the evolution from Prototypal inheritance into the current class model. Why though? Wha...

Bit

Here, we are going to integrate the offline mode to the app. This feature is convenient when we are out of connection, and we can still access some of the features in the app. Here, we are just going to notify the network status and cache the data using the react-native-NetInf...

kris

Modern software development best practices require programmers to write tons of code: Business logic Tests. Unit/Integrational/E2E and even types....

JavaScript In Plain English

Let's start simple by supposing we have some ubiquitous operation called doSomething(): async function doSomething () { // we don't care what's in here} We don't really care about what it does. It might be querying a REST API, waiting for the user to perform an operation, what...

Nicolas Vanhoren

I love the following quote which seems apt for this key trait. None of us is as smart as all of us. - Ken Blanchard Software Engineering is an art and definitely demands creativity. Often times, due to the nature of work in this field, engineers tend to be cut-off or cornered ...

Anand Safi

If you are new to programming and don't know where to start this article is just for you. Today there are more than a hundred programming languages ( Google says more than 700 ), So many options to......

JavaScript In Plain English

If you have heard of dependency injection you have been using inversion of control but maybe not knowingly.IoC is often seems used interchangeably with DI but IoC as a concept is much more than that....

Gaurav Behere

Welcome! If you've worked in React before, you may have heard of the term destructuring. Destructuring is an ES6 convention that allows us developers to extract values from data in an array or properties from an object. This is useful, because we can choose which properties we...

Manon Sainton

Just before Christmas, I started to experiment with using NgSwitch and the IntersectionObserver API to defer template bindings in Angular. The hope being that I could reduce digest complexity which may lead to better performance when dealing with very large data-sets....

Ben Nadel

Every value has or values in JavaScript. For example, a `null` value has an associated boolean value of . Similarly `34` has an associated value of . We can use this to cast a variable to or using the double bang operator. Let's dive deep into what it is and how it works....

Sanchitha Sr

Happy New Year Everyone! We're looking forward to year jam packed with excellence so let's kick off with some Top stories! Bharti Purohit takes us through the "Top 7 Mobile App Development Trends that will Rule 2021", Eric Elliott gets the momentum going in "Top JavaScript ...

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