JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Feb 1, 2022

Pure functions and impure functions are two common terms used in JavaScript. On the surface level, both functions look identical. However, if we look closer, there are some major differences between them. As developers, it is essential to understand the similarities and differ...

Syncfusion

React uses batching to group state updates within event handlers and inbuilt hooks. It prevents components from re-rendering for each state update and improves application performance. React 17, and prior versions only support batching for browser events. However, with the Rea...

Bit

After looking at using AbortController to cancel fetch() callsin modern JavaScript, I started to think about what else I could cancel. The next obvious thing to me is timers. Historically, if I wanted to cancel a timer, I would use the clearTimeout() function....

Ben Nadel

PNPM is an alternative package manager for Node.js which stands for "Performant NPM". The main purpose of PNPM is to hold all the packages at a global (centralized) store and use them if needed by other projects too by creating hard links to it. Saves a huge amount of disk space....

Bit

Delaying code execution/simulating a delay has various uses - pausing in a loop for displaying data, waiting for other threads in a multithreaded environment to finish (though, this doesn't replace proper asynchronous programming) or simply lessening loads on a server or clien...

StackAbuse

One of my aspects of JavaScript that drew me to it as a young developers was that its syntax was loose and I could code quickly. As you gain experience as...

David Walsh

If you want to skyrocket your career in software development, and you want to do this in JavaScript, compliment, you made a good choice. Despite that, this journey will be sometimes hard, difficult, and challenging. Remember, don't leave. If you can reach a good amount of expe...

Matteo Possamai

Conditional statements are commonplace in JavaScript code. The if...else statement is usually the one learned first. It checks a condition and executes a statement when it is truthy. If the condition is falsy a different statement is executed instead. Another way to handle thi...

John Troutman

hello everyone welcome back to another episode of the spotlight of the day series. Today we have a library called handwritten.js This is a library that helps us in converting text to realistic handwriting. let me show you an example first. This is just text the text is convert...

Coding is Love

How to run the same test or spec files again and again by launching it from GitHub Actions page. Imagine you are doubting if a test works consistently. You could run it using cypress-grep locally. But what if someone working on the backend API comes in and asks if they could l...

Gleb Bahmutov

The current relevance of TypeScript is undisputed. But as we get into 2022, just how relevant is TypeScript going to be moving forward?...

CSS-Tricks

In this article, we look at how to improve the security of a system by implementing Risk-based Authentication. To achieve this we will integrate the have i been pwned APIs into our login flow using Auth0 Actions. To put it simply, Risk-based Authentication or RBA uses real-tim...

Parham

Setting the center-active prop to true on the v-tabs component will make the active tab always centred. For example: Clicking on another tab will make it active and centre it: With the next-icon and prev-icon props, we can customize the icon used to navigate through all the ta...

JavaScript In Plain English

Anyone who's vaguely familiar with computer programming will know what a loop is. It's a standard way of iterating through a list of elements and there're three most common ones which you'll find across different programming languages, the for, the while, and the do-while loop....

JavaScript In Plain English