Have you ever been working with those sweet new ES6 arrow functions, run into a problem, and noticed that now your stack trace is all anonymous functions? Yeah, that’s not so great. That’s why this Babel plugin is so useful. …
In 2014, Philip Roberts gave a great talk at JSConf EU, walking through the event loop and breaking down what JavaScript is doing under the hood for those of us without CS degrees. I came across this talk the other …
The following is a guest post by David DeSandro. David wanted to offer a new feature in Isotope: staggered animations. Like so many things web, there are lots of ways he could have approached it. Here he looks …
We have all written essays during our school days. There was always a minimum word count – 250, 500 words – that we needed to meet before submitting. Before I had a computer at home I used to count words …
The web is full of third-party scripts. Sites use them for ads, analytics, retargeting, and more. But this isn’t always the whole story. Scripts can track your behavior, your preferences, and other information.
Here, we’re going to look at the …
The following is a guest post by David Corbacho, a front end engineer in London. We’ve broached this topic before, but this time, David is going to drive the concepts home through interactive demos that make things very …
The following is a guest post by Ryan Christiani. Ryan is a teacher at HackerYou and has been working on a video series called Let’s Learn ES6. He offered to put some of that together into a tutorial …
Remy Sharp attended Google’s first Progressive Web Apps event:
…What’s stood out for me was how a relatively small amount of JavaScript and some well considered code can truly create an offline first experience that doesn’t just rival it’s native
Lexy Munroe shows a dozen or so issues with Twitter’s reliance on JavaScript that could have been handled with some kind of progressive enhancement. Sometimes picking on the big players is useful, as they really do influence how other apps …
…As you can imagine, I ran into some problems. Netflix wouldn’t work. Neither would YouTube, at least not without turning on Adobe Flash, which would kind of defeat the point of turning off JavaScript. And of course you can forget
The following is a guest post by Faraz Kelhini. Some of this stuff is out of my comfort zone, so I asked Kyle Simpson to tech check it for me. Kyle’s answer (which we did during an Office Hours…
