[].forEach() vs [].map()

Pulling vs Passing Data

Pulling Data

Let’s assume that we are going through an array of objects (say, users) and we want to return to the user’s name and avatar url. We could use forEach, pull the data out of the array…

What the Hell Is: Asynchronous JavaScript

The first time I tried an AJAX request, I couldn’t even figure out what the documents were trying to tell me or how to configure that thing in the squiggly lines between the parentheses to make it magically show text on my screen let alone knew what the A…

Deploying a Node Application on Heroku

WordPress touts an impressive “5 minute” install, getting the client and developer into the environment the end-user will be experiencing. I wanted to be able to get an app up on a server somewhere to show my friends without having to do the rigmarole of…

Let’s Learn: Word Search

Let’s suppose that we have a string of characters that may or may not contain words and we have an array of possible words. Let’s try to find all of the words in the string!

First, we are gonna want to make a function that compares two strings. Since we are…