Building A New Web App Written In JavaScript/TypeScript In part one of this series, we discussed some of the components that make up a complete application written in JavaScript/TypeScript. In this part of the series, we will build a simple chat application,...
What Is A Promise? When handling asynchronous operations in JavaScript, such as AJAX requests, or disk IO in Node, the traditional way was to provide callback functions to these to be executed when they complete. Promises reverse this approach. When executing...
Google JavaScript Style Guide: Takeaways for TypeScript Developers Google has published a JavaScript Style Guide. I personally like style guides as they give direction, especially to a team of developers, on the best practice way of formatting, naming and using...
You have probably heard a lot of comments on React: “React is awesome”, “it’s an awful lot of code to write to achieve the same using jQuery”, etc. It is a lot of code – a lot of useful code, and still pretty fast! Even more useful: overcoming immutability and...
