The front-end space over the last six years or so has really heated up, you could say superheated. As browsers become more powerful, devices …
Javascript
Are Classes in Javascript Bad?
Staunch functional proponents will fire up at the mere mention of classes or any form of object-oriented programming. These arguments go way …
Getting Typescript 3.7 To Work With Webpack and ts-loader
At the time of writing this post, TypeScript 3.7 is in beta. Eventually, this post will become irrelevant. But, for the moment if you are …
Mocking Default Imports In Jest With TypeScript
If you are writing tests using Jest and you use TypeScript, there is a good chance you have encountered an error along the lines of …
When To Use State Management In Front-end Applications?
As ubiquitous as state management has become in front-end development, it is still a confusing magical black box to most developers. Data …
Default Exports = Bad
Hello humans. In JavaScript, the worlds most loved and internets favourite client-side language, thanks to modern ECMAScript standards, we …
The State of JS Survey Is A Farce: Part Two
Recently, I published a blog title which I titled, The State of JS Survey Is A Farce in which I expressed criticism that the State of JS …
The State of JS Survey Is A Farce
The State of JS is a survey that has been running for a few years now, which surveys front-end developers and aims to find out what they're …
Computed Object Keys and Function Names In Javascript
For years, I wanted the ability to use variables as object keys in Javascript. Thanks to ES2015, we got the ability to have computed object …