JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Apr 21, 2021

Why everything you know about Microservices, Micro Frontends, Monorepos, and even plain old component libraries, is about to change. Independent components are a revolutionary way to build web projects. They replace or transform much of today’s software development strategies ...

Bit

A component object stores general information about a component. That includes its component id, scope name, references to its version objects, and more. The component's hash is not based on its content since it is not immutable. It is updated whenever a component gets tagged ...

Bit

Hey guys, this post is about writing tests for projects that access the file system by reading and writing files to disk. A lot of my past projects in some way had to do with file access....

Sebastian Landwehr

Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a new evolution of the Jamstack, allowing you to update static content instantly without needing a full rebuild of your site. The hybrid approach of Next.js allows you to use ISR for e-commerce, marketing pages, blog posts, ad-backed me...

Smashing Magazine

The Fetch API in JavaScript is a simple interface for fetching resources over the internet. Fetch makes it easier for us to make web requests and handle the responses. This feature is built as a Promise-based JavaScript API for making asynchronous HTTP requests in the same way...

Handhika Yanuar P

Automating the repetitive process of creating a front-end boilerplate. I was working with some clients and developing their projects. Most of my clients have requirements for a front-end interface. Every time, I undertake the repetitive process of creating a repository on Gith...

shreyvijayvargiya

Choosing our first programming language is a dilemma most of us had gone through when we were taking our first, tentative steps on this programming journey. Your first programming language becomes a deciding factor that shapes your impression of programming itself. And it coul...

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Traditionally, developers have created properties inside of JavaScript classes for any data that might be needed within an instance. This isn't a problem for small pieces of data that are readily available inside of the constructor. However, if some data needs to be calculated...

Nicholas C. Zakas

React implements a unidirectional pattern for data flow for building components. The pattern itself is not unique to React but is followed strictly. Unidirectional data flow simply means that data can only flow in one way alone....

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

How to track the written tests using the Cypress test statuses After the Cypress spec completes every test has one of the 4 statuses: passing, failing, pending, or skipped. Let's look into each status. Passing tests are the best, aren't they? The have successfully completed al...

Gleb Bahmutov

It's a popular week for "How To's" this week! Let's kick off with "How to create an Authentication System using JWT and Node.js" by Ram Potabatti and "How to Build Restful APIs with Node.js, Express and MySQL" by Jaykrishnareddy.

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When I first learned how to use Redux, it was a bit overwhelming keeping up with the different files, functions, types, actions, and reducers necessary to make it work. After I got the hang of it, using it felt almost like second nature - it's highly structured, it's easy to t...

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