JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Oct 20, 2021

Implementing a secure and robust cookie handling mechanism can be a challenging task. But, if you know the correct libraries, it becomes relatively straight ward. In this article, I will discuss 6......

Bit

Once a month, Mozilla Foundation Xavier Harding Where'd you get your start, Thomas? How did you end up working in tech, what was the first piece of code you wrote, what's the Thomas Park origin story? speaks with people in the tech industry about where they're from, the work t...

Mozilla Hacks

Setting up, caching, and re-creating the test data using cypress-data-session plugin. This post will introduce you to a very powerful way of creating and re-using data in your Cypress tests. By re-using the expensive to create objects like users, projects, etc....

Gleb Bahmutov

React Combo Chart tutorial; Chart integration is a required feature in almost every app, especially when you have to show data to users for business decision making. This guide is going to be helpful for React developers, and if you are a beginner react developer, then this tu...

Digamber Singh

Today I learned that the npm root command locates the local and global node_modules directory. Finding local dependencies isn't very spectacular because they're usually located in ./node_modules. But locating the global dependencies can be a hassle. People install Node.js in c...

stefan judis

Svelte has been a popular topic within the JavaScript dev community. And usually, when a framework or library is talked about as much as Svelte has been, I entertain the idea of learning about it and get curious to know why people are paying it so much attention....

Christopher Kirk Jones 🚀 InThisOrder App

Using plain Jest on a TypeScript codebase has rough edges. Making them work together smoothly is something you do just rarely enough to forget the details. Hope this helps us both :)...

Swizec

Quick summary ↬ In this tutorial, Paul Scanlon explains how to build an API by using Gatsby Functions and what you need to keep in mind when deploying it to Gatsby Cloud. You've probably heard about Serverless Functions, but if you haven't, Serverless Functions provide functio...

Smashing Magazine

JavaScript is like the Swiss knife of software engineering. It can do what you need it to do, and according to the Principle of Least Power, it will do it. In case you want to avoid reinventing the......

ITMAGINATION

Which back-end language should you use for your next project? Node.js or Python? It's a common question that many entrepreneurs ask themselves when deciding which language to adopt for their next web......

Ajay Kapoor

While sorting an array of objects recently, I needed to sort by an identifier prefixed with two letters and ended with numbers. An example is "AQ110" - you might be tempted to reach for a library, but you can achieve this in Javascript with very little code. Say hello to local...

Dwayne Charrington

This weeks' stories definitely have a "how to" theme running through, so if you're in a "how to" mood then check out some of the more popular stories, like "How to Fill an Array with Initial Values in JavaScript", "How to Use Currying and Composition in JavaScript", "How to...

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