JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Aug 4, 2021

Run your Node apps faster and safer than Linux. 2X as fast on GCP and 3X as fast on AWS using open source unikernels. Deploy to the cloud in tens of seconds with no docker, k8s or other complex ops work....

NanoVMs

WebSockets are used for real-time communication between the browser and a server. These communications are bi-directional. Therefore it fits low latency applications such as chat, real-time multiplayer gaming, in-app notifications. If you are new to WebSockets, I suggest you l...

Bit

"One website for every screen size" is undoubtedly a nightmare when it comes to testing for mobile browser compatibility. It's quite challenging to test applications on multiple devices due to various factors like screen size, resolution. But now we have tools like BrowserStac...

Bit

JavaScript is indeed ruling the roost as it is easy to use, and web developers find it the best programming language for website development compared to its alternatives. 68 percent of the software developers around the globe report Javascript as the most commonly used program...

JavaScript In Plain English

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make good use of Mongoose schema mixed type, getters and, setters to manipulate data in your MongoDB database Most product rating systems such as that of amazon make use of the weighted average system....

JavaScript In Plain English

There are various types of loops in JavaScript, and all of them essentially do the same thing: they repeat an action again and again. Loops come in handy if you want to repeat the same block of code for a certain number of times. Basically, they are a fast and...

Dionysia Lemonaki

Last month, Gregor Weber and I added an autocomplete search to MDN Web Docs, that allows you to quickly jump straight to the document you're looking for by typing parts of the document title. This is the story about how that's implemented....

Mozilla Hacks

Resilience is intrinsic to the web and therefore us, web developers. This article explores how graceful degradation, defensive coding, observability, and a healthy attitude towards failures better equips us before, during, and after an error occurs....

Smashing Magazine

I don't understand it. Once again, someone with a good amount of community influence said that when you use the React JavaScript framework you learn "more JavaScript" when compared to other frameworks (Angular in this particular case)....

Ben Nadel

React is a library for rendering UI, it doesn't care about styling. It is a nice thing about React, but it also leaves us alone in a big ocean with a lot of options. Usually, choosing the style......

Naveen DA

Developing an app for your business but not sure what is the best app development framework to be used in 2021? Here is the list of top performing hybrid frameworks that allow mobile app developers to build highly interactive hybrid apps, Native Android/iOS and progressive web...

Sophia Martin

Let's say we have an idea for a cool component. We want to build it and share it with the community by publishing it to NPM registry. The code to implement the component functionality appears intuitive. But the boilerplate we have to put together for the open-source project is...

Vijay T

Promise.allSettled(promises) is a helper function that runs promises in parallel and aggregates the settled statuses (either fulfilled or rejected) into a result array. Let's see how Promise.allSettled() works. Promise.allSettled() is useful to perform independent async operat...

Dmitri Pavlutin

Axios is a JavaScript library used to make HTTP requests from Node.js or XMLHttpRequests from the browser and it supports the Promise API that is native to JavaScript ES6. Another feature that it has......

sumeet bhalla