JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Feb 11, 2021

Regardless of whether you're a back-end developer working with Node.js or a front-end developer using Node.js only as a tool for your packaging and bundling needs, you've surely come across the concept of dependencies. But why are there 5types of them (yeap, that's not a typo,...

Bit

Testing code is essential for writing quality code. Automating the testing will help to reduce the manual overheads of repetitive testing. However, this doesn't mean that we can eliminate manual testing. Having a comprehensive test suit helps identify code failures and gives u...

Bit

In March I am going to teach the Progressive Enhancement course of the Web minor at university for the third time. I decided to expand the reading list for this course, and here I present my current draft and ask for your feedback. In the text you will find a few questions....

Peter-Paul Koch

Managing data is one of the fundamental concepts of programming. Converting a Number to a String is a common and simple operation. In JavaScript, you can represent a number as an actual number (ex. 1000), or as a string (ex. '1000')....

JavaScript In Plain English

When using keyed logics it's easy to get into a situation where you need to pass props similar to this: In Kea 2.3 you can use to clear this up: When you write , Kea stores a specific build of itemLogic inside a React Context. Any nested children will get that when calling e.g...

Marius Andra

Safari Technology Preview Release 120 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update in the Software Update pane of System Preferences on macOS. This release covers WebKit revisions 27...

WebKit

If you are a regular reader of my blog you know my heart belongs to ReactJS, it's what I choose for my projects and is the framework of choice at the company I work for....

livecodestream

One of the things I've been doing for the past few months (on and off-more off than on TBH) is rewriting Bliss to use ESM . Since Bliss v1 was not using a modular architecture at all, this introduced some interesting challenges. Bliss is essentially a collection of helper func...

Lea Verou

This article is not an introduction to Svelte or TypeScript. If you are unfamiliar with either of these technologies, I urge you to do some individual research before diving into these topics. With that out of the way, let's get started!...

JavaScript In Plain English