JavaScript Kicks - JSK Weekly - August 11, 2021

WebSockets are used for real-time communication between the browser and a server. These communications are bi-directional. Therefore it f...

Bit

The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an im...

Smashing Magazine

Ever wondered what are JavaScript promises? Are you tired of using callbacks? Here is a guide for you to learn about promises and how the...

sumeet bhalla

The Essential JavaScript Spreadsheet, also known as the JavaScript Excel viewer, is a feature-rich control for organizing and analyzing d...

Syncfusion

Astro is a modern static site builder that allows you to deliver applications with less JavaScript. As a developer, I found this very int...

Bit

When returning from a promise from an asynchronous function, you can wait for that promise to resolve return await promise, or you can re...

Dmitri Pavlutin

Answer: A function that is passed as an argument to another function is called as callback function. This callback function will be execu...

JavaScript In Plain English

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...

NanoVMs

There are various types of loops in JavaScript, and all of them essentially do the same thing: they repeat an action again and again. Loo...

Dionysia Lemonaki

There will come a point at least once in your career as a JavaScript developer where you'll run into a memory leak issue (usually on prod...

Vijay Pagare

Today, JavaScript has become one of the most used languages for web development. However, it has to pass so many hurdles to climb up to t...

Bit

Resilience is intrinsic to the web and therefore us, web developers. This article explores how graceful degradation, defensive coding, ob...

Smashing Magazine

DOM stands for the Document Object Model. The logical structure of documents and the ways of accessing and manipulating documents are def...

JavaScript In Plain English

React Hooks are a newly proposed feature that lets you use state and life-cycle methods without writing a class component. React Hooks we...

Upmostly

In this article, we'll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React `children` and the ways to do it. In particular, we w...

Smashing Magazine

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 ...

Naveen DA

What is the `useRef` hook? How do you use it? When should you use `useRef` vs `useState`? What caveats should you be aware of when using ...

Upmostly

On this episode we talk with Ari Clark about the work / life balance, what a 10x developer is, connecting with peer and networking, deali...

John Papa

As I've shown you in the past, nvm an excellent utility for switching between Node.js versions. Whether your host machine or CI, building...

David Walsh

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make good use of Mongoose schema mixed type, getters and, setters to manipulate data in your Mong...

JavaScript In Plain English

"One website for every screen size" is undoubtedly a nightmare when it comes to testing for mobile browser compatibility. It's quite chal...

Bit

React Testing Library makes functional testing of React components easier. It provides a virtual DOM where we can render components, prov...

Vijay T

How the Cypress tests can receive the DOM and jQuery events sent by the application. Often the web application uses events that flow from...

Gleb Bahmutov