JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Jan 26, 2021

From our sponsor: Elevate all your marketing with Mailchimp Smarts. I love blobs and I enjoy looking for interesting ways to change basic geometries with Three.js: bending a plane, twisting a box, or exploring a torus (like in this 10-min video tutorial)....

Codrops

In JavaScript, the array.sort() method sorts the array. Let's use the method to sort an array of numbers: Hm... numbers.sort() returns [10, 11, 5] - which doesn't look like a sorted array in ascrending order. Why does array.sort() method, when invoked without arguments, doesn'...

Dmitri Pavlutin

An investigation into a hanging application that required geolocation access during Cypress test. 🔎 You can find the source code for this blog post in bahmutov/cypress-geolocation-example repo. Recently a user has reported with a small application that showed geographical aut...

Gleb Bahmutov

Welcome to the second part of our Angular Cms Tutorial. Here are the links to the other parts of the tutorial (I will add the links after I publish them): Part 1 Part 2 - no need for a link, right? You're already in it!...

JavaScript In Plain English

Here is an interesting question; are the types in your TypeScript project enough documentation, on their own, to allow someone to learn the library? That was the question I asked myself when I saw the Amazon had released a React UI library for AWS. They only released the code ...

Jack Herrington

Learn how to create a 3D sun with Three.js in this coding session. In this ALL YOUR HTML coding session you'll learn how to recreate the sun from Frontier Development Lab's Sun Challenge, using numerous shaders, lots of layers of noise and CubeCamera. This coding session was s...

Codrops

Collaborating with the community has always been at the heart of MDN Web Docs content work - individual community members constantly make small (and not so small) fixes to help incrementally improve the content, and our partner orgs regularly come on board to help with strateg...

Mozilla Hacks

To wrap up January, we are proud to bring you the release of Firefox 85. In this version we complete removal of Flash support from Firefox....

Mozilla Hacks

This tutorial will help you learn how to replace an if/else statement with a more concise shorthand syntax called the ternary operator. The conditional operator - also known as the ternary operator - is an alternative form of the if/else statement that helps you to write condi...

NathanSebhastian

After using Vue and Angular.js (I used the first version of Angular when it came out) for many years, I have to say that I always enjoyed the simplicity of using v-if and ng-if to render child components conditionally. Now I'm writing React primarily and honestly I'm bothered ...

stefan judis

Create a dropzone element (I used a element but you can create a different element): Give the dropzone a dashed border style: Highlight the dropzone when the event is fired (image is dragged over the dropzone): event.preventDefault() is necessary or else the image will be open...

JavaScript In Plain English