JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Dec 6, 2021

React Async is a simple library. To get things started, you need to get familiar with its three main APIs: 1. component. 2. useAsync hook. 3. createInstance factory function. So, let's see what those APIs are and their usage in detail....

Bit

In this quick tutorial, I will walk you through some of the best ways you can compress images for Reactjs for huge performance wins. As you can see on the cover image, the original file was 65 KB, and after compression, I got it down to 5 KB, that's over 80% saving for just on...

Tamal Anwar Chowdhury

Sankey diagrams are best used for showing a flow from one set of values to another. Ideally, in Sankey diagrams, the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate. Ordinarily, this much we know, but do you know how to create a Sankey chart in React application....

Digamber Singh

A few years ago I wrote a post about class components vs stateless functional components and why you should use each one. At the time of writing, those were the two types of components and many developers yearned for a way to use functional components with state and lifecycle ...

Tim Smith

Salma Alam-Naylor joins us this week to share her thesis that JavaScript is best in moderation, and is a liability when creating performant, resilient, and accessible web applications. Salma says we're drunk on JavaScript, and it's time we learn how to leverage this powerful w...

JS Party

Wanna see the strangest looping construct I've found in production code? It looked like this: The array was a function argument and the loop did more than print the values. What's wrong with this code? The code works, it's readable, doesn't look that crazy. Anyone can jump in ...

Swizec

Welcome to other chapters of Let's Understand Chrome V8 This article explains the preparatory work before compiling JavaScript source code, including the loading and transcoding of JavaScript source code and syntax analysis....

Qing

Recently we talked about what web components are and how you can build a web app utilizing them with only vanilla JavaScript. While web components are......

Unicorn Utterances

👋 Hey, folks! Today, we will be discussing endpoint handlers! As the above diagram showcases, an endpoint handler is a kind of watcher and verifier of all the incoming requests to your server. It runs important security validations on every incoming request for any endpoint....

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We want to have a collection of messages in a cloud. Our app allows you to Create/Read/Update/Delete messages. 90% of web applications are like this. We are making an Express app. However, we connect additional routs in a non-canonical way with require()....

Aleksey Kozin

How to import JSON data directly into an ES module....

Dmitri Pavlutin

Very recently, 2 weeks ago, we released Teaful; a tiny, easy and powerful React State management. If you want to know more about Teaful, I recommend this article. Teaful was well received (+500 GH stars) and one of the most requested features was to implement a devtool to debu...

Aral Roca

The following functions are responsible for fulfilling each order that comes in. prepareItem(itemName, callback) : This function takes in an 🍔 and callback 📞 as parameters. Preparing the item is simulated using the setTimeout ⏰ API which fires after the specified timeout ⏳(P...

Savinu Vijay