Javascript

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 continually improved and innovation a constant thing, no …

Staunch functional proponents will fire up at the mere mention of classes or any form of object-oriented programming. These arguments go way back to before Javascript was even a thing or as popular as …

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 TypeError: defaultsDeep_1.default is not a function or TypeError: …

As ubiquitous as state management has become in front-end development, it is still a confusing magical black box to most developers. Data goes in, data goes out, and nobody thinks about what happens …

Hello humans. In JavaScript, the worlds most loved and internets favourite client-side language, thanks to modern ECMAScript standards, we have default and named exports. It’s simple, and you …

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 survey is highly inaccurate, biased and dangerous. I …

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 using, what they love, what they’re interested …

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 keys from within the object definition itself. This …

Recently, whilst working on a project I needed to take HTML FormData and then convert it to JSON to be sent off to an API. By default the FormData object does not work in the way you would want it to …

Most of the time when you’re looping over an array of elements, you’ll do it sequentially. However, I recently needed to iterate through an array of objects in reverse just using a plain …