Transpiling Wars: BabelJS vs Traceur
While browsers play catchup with ES6 support and we wait for older browsers without ES6 support to fizzle out and die, we can actually start using ES6 today thanks to the work of Google’s Traceur or …
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I Heart Object.observe()
If you have used AngularJS, or EmberJS and any other front-end Javascript based framework, then you would be familiar with the concept of data binding. Essentially being able to watch a Javascript …
DOMDocumentFragment vs innerHTML
When it comes to Javascript, there are many ways you can skin a cat as they say. When it comes to inserting HTML into a page, unless you are using a Javascript library like jQuery or something like …
Front-end PSA: Are You Using For Loops In Your Javascript?
I am most certainly not a Javascript purist, I love jQuery just as much as the next developer does, but that doesn’t mean I use it for everything. One thing that really gets under my skin is …
Regular Expression For Validating Australian Phone Numbers (Including landline and mobile)
Recently I was tasked with writing a regular expression that would check for a valid Australian phone number for both landline and mobile phone variants whilst allowing for different formats (spaces, …
What Is The Opposite of event.preventDefault() In jQuery?
This is the one aspect of jQuery and well, Javascript, in general, I see newcomers to Javascript and jQuery get caught upon. Heck, I’ve seen veterans get caught up on how to properly cancel and …