JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Nov 22, 2021

Building a service capable of dynamically routing notifications and managing preferences is vital to any notification system. But if you’ve never built a system like this, it might be difficult to figure out what the requirements are and where the edge cases lie....

Courier

With modern DevOps tools, we have the flexibility to break Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) into multiple stages. And, we typically split the pipeline, looking at various factors such as: Performance - Reduce the execution time, e.g., Maximize resource...

Bit

A coding session that deconstructs the ripple effect seen on homunculus.jp. In this ALL YOUR HTML coding session you will learn how to recreate the interesting ripple effect seen on the homunculus.jp website with Three.js. We'll have a look at render targets and use a little b...

Codrops

Are you amazed and confused both at the same time while looking at the long list of programming languages and questioning their existence? Then this article is for you. Continue reading to clarify your doubts before you drown in more confusion. Who wouldn't like to get their w...

JavaScript In Plain English

If you search across the web for JavaScript interview questions, closures show up nearly every single time - and for good reason. Closures can be used as tools for data encapsulation. If a developer wants to create variables only accessible by a function, closures are the way ...

Kyle DeGuzman

How do you show data on charts that change over time? If you don't know that, we will tell you how it is done effortlessly. Today, one more time, we will discuss how to create a line chart in React js app....

Digamber Singh

Property-based tests give us more confidence in our code. They're great at catching edge-cases we may not have thought of otherwise. But this confidence comes at a cost. Property tests take more effort to write. They force you to think hard about what the code is doing, and wh...

James Sinclair

Using functional programming to write retry-able assertion callbacks. This blog post will teach you how to write short and expressive Cypress tests using a library of tiny functional utilities cypress-should-really. Using this library you will be able to also write single func...

Gleb Bahmutov

An update of MDN's browser-compat-data caught my eye today. Finding values in Arrays is a common practice via find and findIndex. These methods iterate from the array beginning, though. If you wanted to search your array starting from the end, you had to reverse the array and ...

stefan judis

This week we are joined by Sophie Alpert, Head of Engineering at Humu, and former lead of the React Core team, to discuss her experience on being a very early adopter, contributor, and eventually maintainer of React. In her 4+ years on the Core team, she went from supporting a...

JS Party