Jose Aguinaga pinched a community nerve:
The JavaScript community is insane if it thinks anyone can keep up with this.
I heard a lot of Hilarious! So true! reactions. I heard a lot of Nope. This isn’t what it’s like.…
The Template Literal, introduced in ES6, is a new way to create a string. With it comes new features that allow us more control over dynamic strings in our programs. Gone will be the days of long string concatenation!
To …
We had this question on ShopTalk just the other day. We’re so (rightfully) worried about web performance, it feels like we shouldn’t be loading polyfills all the time, only when we detect they are needed. Philip Walton:
…… too many
While support for ES6 is always increasing, we can’t always assume that users will be using a browser that supports all its features. So, in order to utilize ES6 features now and make sure we won’t run into cross-browser compatibility …
Have you ever been working with those sweet new ES6 arrow functions, run into a problem, and noticed that now your stack trace is all anonymous functions? Yeah, that’s not so great. That’s why this Babel plugin is so useful. …
In 2014, Philip Roberts gave a great talk at JSConf EU, walking through the event loop and breaking down what JavaScript is doing under the hood for those of us without CS degrees. I came across this talk the other …
The following is a guest post by David DeSandro. David wanted to offer a new feature in Isotope: staggered animations. Like so many things web, there are lots of ways he could have approached it. Here he looks …
We have all written essays during our school days. There was always a minimum word count – 250, 500 words – that we needed to meet before submitting. Before I had a computer at home I used to count words …
The web is full of third-party scripts. Sites use them for ads, analytics, retargeting, and more. But this isn’t always the whole story. Scripts can track your behavior, your preferences, and other information.
Here, we’re going to look at the …
