Sick of chaining lots of keys together with dots to access nested values in objects? Frustrated that arr[0] isn’t a very descriptive name?If you write JavaScript you’re likely familiar with ES2015 and all the new language standards that were introduced. Destructuring assignment has incredible value when accessing values in arrays and objects. In this article, Laurie Barth will show you a number of use cases in which this syntax can come in handy.
Read more…
Love your Bash terminal but also love your PC? Maybe you’ve had your eye on some of that new Surface hardware, but can’t make the switch without your terminal. Now you can have Windows and Bash. In this article Burke Holland will take an in-depth look at how to set up a Windows/Linux development box for JavaScript development.
Read more…
Using JavaScript and frameworks like Tensorflow.js is a great way to get started and learn more about machine learning. In this article, Charlie Gerard covers the three main features currently available using Tensorflow.js and sheds light onto the limits of using machine learning in the frontend.
Read more…
You’ve probably heard of WebAssembly and why it’s a powerful tool in the browser. In this article, Robert Aboukhalil will explore why serverless WebAssembly might be equally powerful outside the browser, and how to get started using it. Certain types of applications — such as data analysis and image processing, to name a few — can greatly benefit from such an approach. Though the runtime suffers because of the additional round-trips to the network, this approach does allow us to process more data at a time and not put a drain on users’ resources.
Read more…
Virtual reality is a new immersive medium for exploring content, whether that content is a film (Life of Pi), a game (Beat Saber) or a social experience (as depicted in Ready Player One). Despite its novelty, VR doesn’t require a drastically different toolset to design for — the same tools we use for web game development, 3D modeling, and others are all still applicable. In this tutorial, Alvin Wan leverages your familiarity with web development to get started with VR development.
Read more…
In this article, Ben Frain concludes a three-part series about the trials and tribulations of designing and writing a basic web application with vanilla JavaScript. In part one he covered the why, part two dealt mostly with the how and this part concludes by looking at how the project was drawn to a close and what was learned from the experience. Ben will cover turning a basic web application into a Progressive Web Application (PWA) and ‘shipping’ the application before looking at the most valuable lessons learned by making the simple web application In/Out.
Read more…
In the first article of this series, your author, a JavaScript novice, had set themselves the goal of designing and coding a basic web application. The ‘app’ was to be called ‘In/Out’ — an application to organize team-based games. In this article, Ben Frain is going to concentrate on how the application ‘In/Out’ actually got made.
Read more…
You don’t need to be a Computer Science graduate or know a JavaScript framework to create a Progressive Web Application. With some HTML and CSS knowledge and basic competency with JavaScript, you have all the skills you need. In three parts, Ben Frain is going to share the journey of designing and building a simple Progressive Web Application called ‘In/Out’, built without a framework. You can view it here.
Read more…
In JavaScript, the Number type cannot safely represent integer values larger than 253. This limitation has forced developers to use inefficient workarounds and third-party libraries. BigInt is a new data type intended to fix that. In this article, Faraz Kelhini will take a good look at BigInt and see how it can help overcome the limitations of the Number type in JavaScript.
Read more…
When you are still early on in your programming career, digging into the source code of open source libraries and frameworks can be a daunting endeavor. Reading source code is difficult at first but it becomes easier with time. The goal is not to understand everything but to come away with a different perspective and new knowledge.In this article, Carl Mungazi shares how he got over his fear and began using source code to improve his knowledge and skills. He also uses Redux to demonstrate how he approaches breaking down a library.
Read more…
