Tag: Javascript
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Better error handling in JavaScript
Posted on March 13, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Iain Collins on how and why to use custom error types in JavaScript. Handling errors can be tricky. How Error() historically worked in JavaScript hasn't made this easier, but using the Error class introduced in ES6 can be very helpful.
Tags javascript programming
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JavaScript-Free Frontend
Posted on March 12, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Matt Reyer from Slimvoice -- a webapp without JavaScript is a series where he documents how he rebuilt his app, Slimvoice, using as little JavaScript as possible. He's tried to present JavaScript alternatives and encourage those who reach for a SPA for every project to give it a second thought.
Tags miscellaneous programming learning javascript frontend css
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Common API mistakes and how to avoid them
Posted on February 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Thomas Hunter II is author of this guide on hot topic how to avoid common API mistakes. The advice in this article applies to any API. However, some of the issues author considers are easier to encounter when the application is written in a dynamic language, such as JavaScript, versus a more static language, such as Java.
Tags javascript nodejs apis devops
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Practical introduction to functional programming
Posted on February 5, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Mary Rose article focusing on practical aspects of functional programming. Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. It shows examples of imperative, unfunctional code that people write every day and translates these examples to a functional style.
Tags javascript programming web-development functional-programming
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Structurae: Data structures for high performance JavaScript
Posted on February 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Maga D. Zandaqo published an article about high performant data structures in JavaScript. After author's last attempt to speed up a Node.js server by replacing some JavaScript with a native addon yielded less than exciting results, he has decided to collect and share some common structures he uses to optimize my JavaScript code: structurae.
Tags web-development programming javascript performance
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Authentication at Edge with StackPath
Posted on January 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Jason Byrne thoughts on using cloud Edge for some common tasks. As we spread our applications out into serverless microservices, what better place for our entitlement checks than on the CDN?
Tags web-development serverless apis infosec javascript
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React Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Posted on January 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
John Tucker wrote this little guide in which he explores React BDD using Gherkin syntax with Jest Cucumber.
Tags programming tdd javascript nodejs frontend app-development
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Clean code checklist in Angular
Posted on January 2, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Mathis Garberg posted a piece about how as we become better developers, structuring and organizing code becomes more and more important. Angular has rapidly grown to become one of the most popular frameworks for building front-end, cross-platform web applications. To master it, author decided to put together a clean code checklist which covers my personal recommendations for writing clean production-ready Angular code.
Tags angular javascript nodejs frontend web-development
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5 ways to style React components in 2019
Posted on December 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Jonathan Saring about styling of building blocks of user interfaces in React in 2019. As visual elements, styling them is a big part of how application actually meets our users, and composes the way our brand and product looks and feels.
Tags react javascript web-development programming
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Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
Posted on November 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Rainer Hahnekamp wrote this blog post about object-oriented programming (OOP) in JavaScript. It is aimed at students with no prior knowledge in OOP.
Tags javascript oop programming nodejs
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags nginx programming iot devops miscellaneous nodejs javascript infosec
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Create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation
Posted on November 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Niklas Heidloff and Mark Sturdevant from IBM on hot Alexa skills topic. In it you will find how to create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation. Apart from Alexa you will also use Watson to discuss the weather, build a conversation, or choose one from a library. Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project.
Tags javascript serverless ibm bots miscellaneous nosql