The way we often use Gulp can make our projects brittle and add friction that complicates contribution and on-boarding. Thankfully, this is an avoidable problem with a rock-solid solution that requires minimal effort.
JSConf is less than a week away and a solid contingent of Chromaticians will be headed to sunny California to soak up some of the exciting ways JavaScript is taking shape in the browser and beyond.
Internet Explorer still covers a statistically significant percentage of the current market share (as of the publication of this post) and front-end engineers would do well to recognize its caveats in order to solve problems quickly and deliver a great product to stakeholders.
Native observers empower your JavaScript to subscribe to events like the alteration of the DOM, an elements position in relation to the viewport and even the resizing of individual elements.
jsonmonger is an abstraction layer between your JavaScript application and a json:api-compliant server. It’s designed to simplify your interactions with json:api so that you can focus on business logic, not API transactions.
Whether you're a seasoned JavaScript developer who could use an update or just touching JavaScript for the first time, ES6 for Everyone (https://es6.io/) by Wes Bos is a course for you! This course will give you all the information to get started and also strengthen your basic JavaScript skills.
“Decoupled Drupal” sounds cool and just about everyone else seems to be either doing it or talking about it, so it must be the best solution for you, right? Well, maybe. As with most things, the answer is more nuanced than one might think.
symdeps is an npm utility that lets you define custom install paths for your JavaScript dependencies with just a bit of configuration in your project’s package.json. It supports both symbolic and hard links, can handle individual files or entire directories, and can be set up to run automatically.
Summary: Test-driven development (TDD) keeps you focused, encourages critical thinking, and improves code confidence. Here are some basic principles that have helped me write effective tests and which have proven useful when introducing other developers to the practice.
