JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Aug 25, 2021

Today, carousels are widely used in web applications as a slideshow component, cycling through a collection of elements. So, in this article, I will discuss the negative impacts of using carousels......

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Atomic Layout is a lightweight React library that allows you to generate a grid-based responsive layout for your components. Modern CSS libraries like styled-components and emotion are incredibly useful because they allow you to create isolated, local CSS that applies only to ...

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To understand Async/Await you first have to understand what promises are and how they work: JavaScript is single threaded, meaning that two bits of script cannot run at the same time; they have to run one after another. A Promise is an object that represents the eventual compl...

JavaScript In Plain English

Hoisting. It is the word everyone throws around when talking about JavaScript, yet no one takes the time to actually explain what hoisting is, how it works, and why it is important. In this article, I will be explaining everything you need to know about hoisting so next time s...

JavaScript In Plain English

If you want to know the value of a certain expression in any JavaScript on the web, you can use logpoints for that. It is like injecting a console.log() anywhere you want....

Christian Heilmann

Dates are hard, let's learn how to compare them....

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In JavaScript, you'll often need to iterate through an array collection and execute a callback method for each iteration. And there's a helpful method JS devs typically use to do this: the forEach() method. The forEach() method calls a specified callback function once for ever...

Kingsley Ubah

Solid is a reactive JavaScript library for creating user interfaces without a virtual DOM. It compiles templates down to real DOM nodes once and wraps...

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Until recently adding a little backend to your Gatsby site meant 2 options: Climbing the AWS learning curve Rewrite with NextJS With version 3.7 Gatsby gained the /api directory. Pop a JavaScript or TypeScript file in src/api, export a handler, and you've got a serverless func...

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We're swiftly heading out of the 8th Month, into the 9th, so let's kick this week off with Mike Chen's "9 Super Useful Tricks for JavaScript Developers" on Bits and Pieces.

Some other popular reads this week include "2 Ways to Remove a Property from an Object in J...

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