After giving a brief overview of JavaScript inheritance basics, this talk delves into advanced topics and answers questions such as the following ones: What is the difference between constructor inheritance and instance inheritance? What is the property `constructor` about? How does the `instanceof` operator really work? How does one reference …
Ember.js is a JS framework based on established conventions that allows writing complex applications with a small amount of code. Ember-data is the component that connects this framework with a REST API. Unfortunately, the conventions followed by its community are not compatible with Tastypie, one of the most widely used …
jQuery is so easy to use and thankfully abstracts many of the cross-browser concerns we used to labor over years ago. As with any library, however, there are a common set of bugs that tend to crop up as you start and continue to use it more and more. This …
Data.js is a data representation framework for Javascript. It is being developed in the context of Substance, a web-based document authoring and publishing engine. It took some inspiration from various existing libraries such as the Google Visualization API or Underscore.js.
Have you wanted to learn the basics of Node.js, but haven’t had the right resources or opportunity? With Node.js skyrocketing in popularity, now is the time and we are here to help. This tutorial provides an introductory training in Node.js
JavaScript is well on its way to become the dominant general-purpose programming language. The present looks good and the future looks even better: Many of the things that people currently complain about will be fixed by the next version of ECMAScript (code-named ECMAScript.next). We’ll also look at steps to improve …
