JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Jan 12, 2022

React components have evolved a long way from their inception. Still, many developers find it hard to fix unnecessary re-renderings. However, there are many approaches out there to avoid this issue. In this article, I will discuss 5 methods to avoid unnecessary re-renderings i...

Bit

Webpack is a bundler-based build tool, which means that to serve your application, it needs to crawl, process, and concatenate your application's entire JavaScript file. This applies to the......

Bit

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Codrops

It is no secret that React is one of the most popular libraries for building User Interfaces (UIs) in today's day and age. I am confident most of you who read this blog have used Redux for managing the overall state of the application in your previous projects....

Akhil Reddy Mallidi

As a JavaScript beginner, you probably learned how to declare variables and assign values. In the old, pre-ES6 era of JavaScript, developers used to declare variables using the keyword var or without any keywords. But times have changed! With ES6 (EcmaScript 2015), the beginni...

Tapas Adhikary

Vite (pronounced "veet") is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of...

CSS-Tricks

In this short guide, you'll learn how to select checkbox elements on the page, and check them in JavaScript, with Vanilla JavaScript and jQuery. We'll be working with this simple checkbox setup: The absolute simplest way to check or select a checkbox is to explicitly set the c...

StackAbuse

Ben Nadel explores the fetch() API for the first time; and uses it to build an opinionated, application-specific API client in JavaScript....

Ben Nadel

The problemLet's say I ask you to fix a number to make this equation true 1_ = 3 Of course you might say - ohh it is easy, just put "3" where the _ is. What if I ask you to find num...

Gleb Bahmutov

Everyone should be nicely settled into 2022 by now, using the correct dates, getting out of bed without moaning and ... OK, maybe that's next month. Well, while you're still warming up, check out James Bryce's "4 Reasons I Love JavaScript" to jog your memory on why you love...

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