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The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript

May 17, 2021

May 17, 2021

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Two approaches to win an argument as a software engineer

If you’ve spent any time developing software professionally and then you are probably used to the spirited debates that take place between…

Apr 23, 2021

Apr 23, 2021

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Introducing Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript

If you write server-side JavaScript, chances are you’ve need to read information from environment variables. It’s considered a best…

Mar 9, 2021

Mar 9, 2021

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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 7: Unhandled rejection tracking

When promises were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, they had an interesting flaw: if a promise didn’t have a rejection handler and was later…

Feb 11, 2021

Feb 11, 2021

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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 6: Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled()

In my last post, I walked you through the creation of the Promice.race() and Promise.any() methods, both of which work on multiple…

Jan 19, 2021

Jan 19, 2021

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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 4: Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject()

When you create a promise with the Promise constructor, you’re creating an unsettled promise, meaning the promise state is pending until…

Oct 21, 2020

Oct 21, 2020

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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 3: then(), catch(), and finally()

In my first post of this series, I explained how the Promise constructor works by recreating it as the Pledge constructor. In the second…

Oct 13, 2020

Oct 13, 2020

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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 2: Resolving to a promise

In my first post of this series, I explained how the Promise constructor works by recreating it as the Pledge constructor. I noted in that…

Oct 6, 2020

Oct 6, 2020

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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 1: Constructor

Early on in my career, I learned a lot by trying to recreate functionality I saw on websites. I found it helpful to investigate why…

Sep 29, 2020

Sep 29, 2020

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How to safely use GitHub Actions in organizations

GitHub Actions [1] are programs designed to run inside of workflows [2], triggered by specific events inside a GitHub repository. To date…

Jul 28, 2020

Jul 28, 2020

Nicholas C. Zakas

Nicholas C. Zakas

15.4K Followers

Creator of @geteslint. Author. Speaker. Philosopher. Boston ex-pat. Currently fighting Lyme disease.

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