Tag: Javascript
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How to escape async/await hell
Posted on July 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Javascript developer Aditya Agarwal published this interesting article about perils of asynchronous Javascript. While working with Asynchronous JavaScript, people often write multiple statements one after the other and slap an await before a function call. This causes performance issues, as many times one statement doesn't depend on the previous one -- but you still have to wait for the previous one to complete.
Tags javascript programming nodejs
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The five stages of JSON decoding in Elm
Posted on June 27, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Older article by Matthew Buscemi in which he focuses on his 6 month experience with Elm language and translation of object-oriented patterns for scalable, maintainable architecture to Elm's paradigm. For communicating between Atom editor and his Elm application, he needed ports, and in order to work with Elm Test output, he needed JSON decoders.
Tags programming javascript web-development
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Let's code a web server from scratch with NodeJS Streams!
Posted on June 16, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Ziad Saab tutorial exploring new technologies abound. In it you will go back to the basics and build a simple web server from scratch with NodeJS. You will review the structure of HTTP requests and responses and get an introduction to Node's Stream API.
Tags javascript programming nodejs servers
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How to use Decorators with Factory Functions
Posted on June 13, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Cristi Salcescu detailed post on Decorators. Method decorators are a tool for reusing common logic. They are complementary to Object Oriented Programming. Decorators encapsulate responsibility shared by different objects.
Tags javascript programming nodejs
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How we failed with Angular & Elm is the solution
Posted on May 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Asaf Cohen article about their journey from Angular to Elm. Their address the main problem AngularJS created, and that is the illusion they could use it to design the UX as we please (uh … like develop) and that was not the case.
Tags programming nodejs javascript
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Algorithms and Data Structures in JavaScript
Posted on May 29, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Oleksii Trekhleb straight to the point article about data structures in JavaScript. It describes a collection of classic algorithms and data-structures implemented in ES6 JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings and YouTube videos.
Tags nodejs javascript programming
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Angular security -- Authentication with JSON Web Tokens (JWT), complete guide
Posted on May 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Angular university brought you this a step-by-step guide for both designing and implementing JWT-based Authentication in an Angular application. The goal here is to discuss JWT-based Authentication Design and Implementation in general.
Tags nodejs javascript angular infosec apis
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When, how and why use Node.js as your backend
Posted on May 19, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Justyna Rachowicz published this article about leveraging the Node.js technology in building applications. The benefits of Node.js are countless, but you should also be aware of its constraints. Get a full picture of Node.js and avoid making serious mistakes in development that could cost you money.
Tags programming javascript web-development nodejs
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Performance improvements for search on the yelp Android app p1
Posted on May 8, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article Tyler Argo wrote how Yelp has been working hard to improve the performance of their search results on mobile devices (iOS and Android). We noticed that most users "grunted or made noises when waiting for search to load".
Tags app-development javascript android
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Ionic canvas drawing and saving images as files
Posted on May 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Simon Reimler published this article about working with canvas in Ionic. Working with the canvas can be challenging, but there are amazing things you can build with canvas. In the tutorial we will implement a canvas inside an Ionic app on which we can draw in different colours.
Tags app-development javascript angular
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Building a PWA chat app with Vue.js and Firebase (p1)
Posted on April 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Kohwo Orien article about how to utilize Vue.js for building of Progressive Web Apps. Vue.js is a progressive framework for building web user interfaces. It became one of the recommended frameworks for building fast, reliable progressive web applications with offline capabilities and performance.
Tags javascript nodejs app-development
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Express.js and AWS Lambda serverless love story
Posted on March 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Slobodan Stojanović article about creating serverless applications in Express.js. Express apps are easy to build, it is de facto the most popular Node.js framework.
Tags javascript nodejs app-development