I like ES6 but I miss the word function

I look at code pretty much all day. There is a certain delight I feel when looking at clear, concise code that makes me feel comfortable about my understanding of what’s going on. for example

const numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6];

Private Methods in ES6 and Writing Your Own DB

Lessons learned from making my first npm package

Decided to write a database in Javascript for server side developer freedom in NodeJS. ES6 is my preferred flavor of Javascript, so off I went. Here is what I learned from…

Generators: Putting the sync back in asynchronous.

Generators have been popping up left and right lately and I thought it was about time I understood what all of the fuzz was about. When I saw that co.js was one of the most popular packages on NPM, I realised I couldn’t run away from them any…

Promises, why now?

In the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid JavaScript promises. I was fine with async and my tiny library inspired by async: txain. I saw some benefits on using promises but many downsides. The main ones: depending on external libraries and forcing the users of your library / code to use…