Privilege in Developer Hiring
We need to stop demanding free community work from people if we want to find good, honest, hard workers.
Privilege in Developer Hiring
We need to stop demanding free community work from people if we want to find good, honest, hard workers.
Why Web Dev?
A few years back, someone asked me why I liked web development. It took me a few years to explain my answer.
Why the heck did I bother making fluent-sort?
I made a library called fluent-sort, and I really like it, even though it's a little useless. As developers, self-expression is important, and sometimes that's enough.
Making use of yield in JavaScript
A look into the new yield keyword in JavaScript, with a very basic Fibonacci sequence example.
Introduction to Redux
Redux is an application state library for JavaScript, often used with React applications.
Keeping your repository clean with git hooks
Different developers have different styles, which can clash in a collaborate development environment. A growing trend amongst developers is to leverage their version control systems to block actions from affecting team members unless
The Fundamentals of Webhooks
A webhook is a route created on one application with the expectation that data will be sent to that route periodically from another application. For a concrete example, let us talk about two
Adding Two-factor Authentication to an Express App
Concept Explanation of Easy Two Factor Authentication
Client-side searching a large data set using tries
Understanding data structures is an important part of being a web developer when non-trivial problems crop up. What works with 50 entries may not work with 50,000 entries.
Testing JavaScript Modules with Jest
A simple guide to writing tests for a basic calculator module.
Handling an Array of Promises
A very common situation is having to make many asynchronous calls. There are two ways that we can wait for those to happen: All at once / without concern for order In the order
Closing in on closure
There is a familiar tenet in programming. When the function has completed running, the variables are disposed. This is pretty close to our hearts as programmers. So naturally, JavaScript comes in shakes things