JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Jan 13, 2021

All you perfectionists out there might start wondering now; how on earth do you get a perfect random number. Well, the truth is that you can never get a real random number with an algorithmic approach. When math and formulae are used to create a random number, however random i...

Bit

In this tutorial, we'll go over how to solve the CodeWars invert values problem in JavaScript. Instead of just diving into the code, we'll first read through the problem and make sure we understand it. Next we'll write pseudocode that we'll use as our guide to solve the proble...

Madison Kanna

Learning how to become a confident React developer takes hard work. But not knowing the right way to become one can make it much harder. Learning React doesn't have to be a chore. Let's break down the 10 steps that will make the time and effort you put into becoming a React de...

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In our previous blog post about the web testing ecosystem, we described the tradeoffs involved in automating the browser via the HTTP-based WebDriver standard versus DevTools protocols such as Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). Although there are benefits to WebDriver's HTTP-base...

Mozilla Hacks

In my never ending journey of refactoring and refining my code my most recent endeavor has been in writing cleaner and easier to read code with the help of async-await Up until recently I had only used JavaScript & Promises primarily within the context of writing React code....

JavaScript In Plain English

React is great and fast most of the time. But sometimes, due to heavy calculations, it slows down, that's when we need to measure and optimize our Components to avoid "wasted renders". Optimizations come with its cost, if it's not done properly, the situation might get worse....

Kush Tran

You will occasionally want a group of statements to get executed more than once. We accomplish this task using loops. In most programming languages, the majority of code execution time is spent within loops....

Somnath Singh

Every good app needs a good navigator. Just like a cross-country trip, a good navigator takes us from place to place in our app, ensuring that we get to the place we want to go. A bad navigator takes us... well, where the navigator wants to go....

Allan Graves

I remember when I first worked in JavaScript, I found it difficult to understand how to correctly handle asynchronous operations. I made some common mistakes like assuming AJAX is synchronous which causes my function always returning undefined. It was also difficult to get use...

JavaScript In Plain English

Recently I bought a personal domain and decided to build a quick landing page to not leave it empty while I work on my portfolio. I thought some of you might find it useful, so I decided to make a......

Madza

I am going to show you how to create a 3D effect on canvas using a library called p5.js. I watched some videos demonstrating the usage of this library and I found also this coding challenge (creating starfield) in Processing. I decided to rewrite it in JavaScript and then impr...

Miroslav Slapka

We're half way through the first month of 2021 and the reaction from the community this week seems to be quite literally, to React! Bookmark this newsletter if you're a React fan because it's jam packed with useful info from Reed Burger's "The React Cheatsheet for 2021" to ...

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