JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Apr 27, 2021

After working for a while with Node.js I've come to the conclusion that there is no better tool to use when writing microservices. Of course, that is my opinion, completely biased by my preference for JavaScript as a language....

Bit

A short JavaScript primer for the overwhelmed front-end newbie. The structure of my Bootcamp had us learning a back-end in Ruby on Rails first, and then we popped right into JavaScript. With Ruby, we had months of legwork in the basics, and with JavaScript, it was oh, about a ...

JavaScript In Plain English

There is an interesting phenomenon happening that I want to talk about. PHP is gradually being looked down upon. I remember seeing an interesting report once on the battle amongst the web browsers for the position of the leader. The report roughly talked about several browsers...

Shingai Zivuku

How to enable and use ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node.js....

Dmitri Pavlutin

The 'this' keyword in JavaScript refers to the object that is executing the current function. The 'this' keyword works differently in different contexts and can be confusing to understand, especially for newcomers, for whom it can prove to be quite daunting. In this article, I...

JavaScript In Plain English

Using private variables and methods −Languages such as Java provide the ability to declare methods private, meaning that they can only be called by other methods in the same class. JavaScript does not provide a native way of doing this, but it is possible to emulate private va...

Ayush Verma