JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Apr 20, 2021

Traditionally React server-side Rendering (SSR) or React DOM Server is introduced to render React elements in index.html for the initial page load. This allows the user to see something meaningful even before React starts to bootstrap in the browser. Besides, React Server Comp...

Bit

How to access the MongoDB during Cypress API tests locally and on CircleCI Imagine your web application is using MongoDB to store its data. How would you take advantage of it during Cypress tests? This blog post shows how to clear the data from a local Mongo database before ea...

Gleb Bahmutov

Navigating and managing data structures is a really important skill for every level of engineer to have and improve upon. Over the years, the JavaScript language has continued to provide more methods for managing data structures, from Object.keys to Object.values and so on. On...

David Walsh

In the previous article, we explored props drilling and how it can be used using composition in React. Let's assume I am a team member, and I discovered a card component that we would use everywhere in our application. Let us build it together. Great!...

Fakorede Boluwatife

parseInt() is a built-in JavaScript function that parses integers from numerical strings. For example, let's parse the integer from the numeric string '100': As expected, '100' is parsed to integer 100. parseInt(numericalString, radix) also accepts a second argument: the radix...

Dmitri Pavlutin

These days, it is quite normal for apps to be developed that run on various platforms. This allows users to access the same application using different devices. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create cross-platform applications that work on the web, and on mobile....

🟣 Andrew Baisden 🇬🇧

From my blog. One of the things that makes JavaScript so powerful is the way it handles asynchronous behavior. From the very beginning, JavaScript has used callbacks as a way of handling a response that may take a while to complete, without preventing your program from continu...

davidfekke

As of late, I've been building-out a number of Search-style pages at InVision in our legacy AngularJS platform. These search pages tend to include an open-ended keyword search in addition to several discrete filters that can be applied in parallel....

Ben Nadel

The stack data structure is great in tracking things in an order that allows you to trace back to the origin. When you control-z or undo something, click the back or forward browser button - when your code editor tells you are missing a closing parenthesis on line 13 - you may...

Before Semicolon

How does it feel accessing Instagram from any where you want without any headache? Amazing right! Every web application out there emerges from a local host or production environment before it's brought to life online. In this tutorial, we'll be hosting your React app to fireba...

Favour Agbejule

Sometimes the obvious, default API is never what you want. That's when you have to memorize the "do things right" flag. For yargs, the command-line argument parser for Node.js, specify options and subcommands like this: import * as yargs from "yargs"; const argv = yargs .optio...

Jessica Kerr

In this article, we'll learn the most popular ways of deploying a React app to Netlify. We'll also learn the configuration changes you'll need to make to deploy a Routing-based React app. The thing I love about Netlify is that it provides a lot of useful features for free such...

Yogesh Chavan

April is upon us, and we have a most timely release for you - Firefox 88. In this release you will find a bunch of nice CSS additions including :user-valid and :user-invalid support and image-set() support, support for regular expression match indices, removal of FTP protocol ...

Mozilla Hacks

The efficiency of the program would be directly relying on Time Complexity when we deal with a huge amount of data to perform operations like searching, sorting, access, insertion and removal of an element. We could selectively use objects and arrays based on the need to enhan...

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