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Jan 21, 2019

paypal-scripts now supports TypeScript as well as JavaScript

What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-scripts for. Note: There was a lot of misunderstanding about this post so I want to make it clear that most of PayPal still uses JavaScript and this post is just to announce that PayPal engineers can now very…

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Assert(js) Testing Conf

·Jan 15, 2018

Assert(js) Speaker Series: thoughts on Testing

A few questions and answers about testing in JavaScript The Assert(js) Conference is just about a month away. I’m really excited about attending, speaking, and workshopping at a conference all about testing JavaScript. In preparation for the conference, the organizers invited us speakers to answer a few questions about testing…

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Assert(js) Speaker Series: thoughts on Testing

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Nov 18, 2015

Introducing JavaScript Air

The live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript I’m pleased to announce JavaScript Air! This is a live video broadcast podcast all about JavaScript and the web and the first episode, “The past, present, and future of JavaScript,” will be with BrendanEich. …

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Oct 22, 2015

Where to put code in mocha/jasmine tests

UPDATE: I now try to avoid using testing lifecycle hooks or nesting describes at all. Listen to me talk about it for 3 minutes here. In fact, now that I’m using Jest (learn Jest), I don’t even use describe either. I find it’s much better this way. …

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Where to put code in mocha/jasmine tests

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Jan 19, 2015

How to distribute your AngularJS module

I’m converting my project to use webpack for a ton of reasons. It’s awesome. This has given me the opportunity to reflect on the relationship between angular modules and npm modules and I think I’ve determined what I believe to be the best way for angular module developers to show…

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Nov 9, 2014

AngularJS: CSS in JS

I was intrigued by the slides from Vjeux entitled “React: CSS in JS” (which is very good stuff and I would encourage you to read through it). I decided to see what it would look like to create something similar with Angular. turns out it’s not that bad and it’s…

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Jul 16, 2014

AngularJS One-time bindings and Recompiling Templates

For the non-trivial Angular Application — unsplash.com — by Sonja Langford If you’ve worked on a sizeable AngularJS application, you’ll discover that while Angular’s digest cycle is awesome, it can also make your app seem sluggish as it grows and that digest cycle takes longer. …

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AngularJS One-time bindings and Recompiling Templates

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Jul 14, 2014

Watching your AngularJS Watchers

Reduce AngularJS Watch Count… — What makes AngularJS more slow than anything else I’ve encountered is having a ton of watchers. For those of you who aren’t familiar with how AngularJS does its two-way databinding, essentially you tell Angular to watch something for changes, and Angular will check it over and over and over and…

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Jul 12, 2014

AngularJS Script Loading

Browserify? Require.js? Concat w/ Sourcemaps? An alternative approach… — one of my side projects… IMPORTANT NOTE: I now use webpack and, as awesome as this was, it has some serious shortcomings. My experience with webpack has been SO much better! I even made an egghead.io series on Angular and Webpack for Modular Applications. I just read a medium post…

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