Articles Tagged JavaScript

JavaScript and CSS have lived beside one another for upwards of 20 years. And yet it’s been remarkably tough to share data between them. There have been large attempts, sure. But, I have something simple and intuitive in mind — something not involving a structural change, but rather putting CSS custom properties and even Sass variables to use.… Read article “Getting JavaScript to Talk to CSS and Sass”

Sometimes, we have to go a little further than HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create the UI we need, and instead use other resources, like SVG, WebGL, canvas, and others.

For example, the most amazing effects can be created with WebGL, because it’s a JavaScript API designed to render interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser, allowing GPU-accelerated image processing.

That said, working with WebGL can be very complex. As such, there’s a variety of libraries that … Read article “Building an Images Gallery using PixiJS and WebGL”

Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think and only requires the trifecta of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Let’s make one together!… Read article “How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With HTML, CSS and JavaScript”

When writing code for the web, eventually you’ll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can’t really multitask, so we’ll need a way to handle those long-running processes.

Async/Await is a way to handle this type of time-based sequencing. It’s especially great for when you need to make some sort of network request and then work with the resulting data. Let’s dig in!

Promise? Promise.

Async/Await is a type of Promise. Promises in … Read article “Understanding Async Await”

Page reloads are a thing. Sometimes we refresh a page when we think it’s unresponsive, or believe that new content is available. Sometimes we’re just mad at the dang site and rage-refresh to let it know we’re displeased.

Wouldn’t be nice to know when a user refreshes the page? Not just that, but how many times? That data can help us trigger some sort of behavior after a certain number of reloads.

A sports site is a good example. If … Read article “One Way to Break Users Out of the Habit of Reloading Too Much”

What’s happening when you see some JavaScript that calls super()?.In a child class, you use super() to call its parent’s constructor and super.<methodname></methodname> to access its parent’s methods. This article will assume at least a little familiarity with the concepts of constructors and child and parent classes. If that’s totally new, you may want to start with Mozilla’s article on Object-oriented JavaScript for beginners.

Super isn’t unique to Javascript — many programming languages, including Java and Python, have … Read article “What is super() in JavaScript?”

JavaScript has a variety of built-in popup APIs that display special UI for user interaction. Famously:

alert("Hello, World!");

The UI for this varies from browser to browser, but generally you’ll see a little window pop up front and center in a very show-stopping way that contains the message you just passed. … Read article “Comparing the Different Types of Native JavaScript Popups”