JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Jan 26, 2022

There are 4 UI frameworks that everyone knows about. Even if they haven't tried it themselves, they know they exist because everyone else in their social circles is talking about them. We all know what they are: React, Vue, Angular and Svelte....

Bit

Software testing should be designed, engineered and monitored. The less bugs and defects a software has in its initial stages of development, the less the maintenance cost after it is in production. In most cases, tests requires more work than any part of software engineering....

Bit

React is a component-based library. We have states and we render a UI that's synced with our states. For example, let's think of an error scenario. We have an input tag for a person's age, when we click to submit button, the age should be shown on the side....

Upmostly

TL;DR - Falso is a modern, tree-shakeable, well-documented replacement for Faker.js You probably know what happened to Faker.js around two weeks ago. In collaboration with Netanel Basal, I created a new mock data generator lib to provide a quick, suitable replacement for those...

Shahar Kazaz

If we have learned anything during this pandemic and working from home, it is that there is an ever-growing need for real-time project collaboration between team members that may be geographically apart. The technology that allows for such group participation requires a synchr...

Kurt Crandall

Dean Tribble (via Rob Palmer) has come up with a neat trick to create constants whose values are strings with their names. With a minor change, we can use it to set up symbol-valued constants....

Axel Rauschmayer

If you are a web developer or a web designer, it is essential for you to have a portfolio website. It lets you provide information about yourself and showcase your best work with your relevant skills and experience. In this blog post, I will discuss some of the benefits of...

Sampurna Chapagain ⚡️

Every year I ask readers if they're enjoying this newsletter. Then fail to use those responses 😅 This year I said heck it and built a /testimonials page that shows everyone's feedback raw from Typeform. Here's how. The best feedback comes from deep in your gut....

Swizec

Let's imagine a scenario where you are writing some code to check whether the day of the week is Wednesday. You had decided to achieve this using conditional statements but because of the many days of the week, you want to check you have ended up with a lot of else if statements....

codecupdev

How to select the tests to run using the GitHub pull request checkboxes. I have been looking closely at keeping the tests in a separate repo from the application. At Mercari US our frontend lives in its own repository, and triggers the Cypress tests in another repository using...

Gleb Bahmutov

Did you know that most of the programming languages extensively used in the computing world are object-oriented? With their help, programmers create a lot of computer programs and a significant part of web content. Therefore, explaining how object-oriented languages (OOLs) ​​w...

Frontend Weekly

Start by creating a free account from https://formspree.io/ . Then choose a new form. After choosing a new form, fill in the required fields then click create form. Copy your form endpoint and paste it into your form code in the action part . Also make sure your form uses meth...

Gatwiri✨

When executing a JavaScript code, the JavaScript engine goes through two phases: Parsing:- JS engine moves all the variable declarations to the top of the page if the variable is global otherwise at top of the function if declared within a function. Execution:- JS engine assig...

JavaScript In Plain English

Hi folks! In this post, we are going to learn and implement one of the simplest yet powerful features in JavaScript derived from the browser's window object called the postMessage. Before exploring this further, let me present a use case where this beautiful feature is super u...

JavaScript In Plain English