Use git, use ESLint, write unit tests.
Want to know the reasoning behind each tool? Keep reading!
Whether you are starting out as a developer or already have some experience, improving your coding skills is an ongoing endeavour. But what does it mean to be a better coder?
While there…
The console object is a very useful feature of browsers that has been around for many years. It provides access to the browser’s debugging console.
Most web developers know how to print messages to the console using console.log. …
If you want to rapidly prototype your next web apps, try using Google Spreadsheets as your data backend.
With a small library I created called get-sheet-done, you can have a free cloud database with GUI editor up and running in less than 5 minutes.
A while back, I needed to…
The classic for loop is a widely used feature of javascript programs. It can be used for running any piece of code multiple times, and it used to be what was used for implementing operations on arrays.
A typical for loop would look something like this:
var arr = ['a'…
While working on the Barcode Detector Polyfill, I needed to wrap a web worker with a promise based API.
The use of a promise in this case was dictated by the standard proposal, and the use of a web worker was needed because of the heavy calculations that the detector…
Styled-components is a library for styling React components that took the React world by storm when it was introduced at the end of 2016. The library is powerful and flexible. And solves most of the problems that classic CSS has in the so-called Component Age.
In this post, I’ll look…
It has been almost two years since the ES6 standard have been released, and thanks to tools like Babel we didn’t have to wait for browsers support in order to adopt the new standard.
I have to admit that initially some of the new language features seemed weird and unnecessary, but…
