This presentation discusses how to enforce code standards in your JavaScript project. As a use case, one of the libraries used at Spotify will be disucsses in order to show the importance of keeping standards in your JavaScript codebase. This session covers a few tools and practices you might want …
More than three years later, the introduction of classes to the ECMAScript standard for JavaScript is still a controversial topic. Brought over from popular classical object-oriented languages, they have not only been argued an unnecessary feature for JavaScript, but their usage can become actually harmful very easily.
Svelte is a free and open-source front end compiler that converts app code into client-side JavaScript at build time. Svelte applications do not include framework references. Instead, building a Svelte application generates code to manipulate the DOM, which may reduce the size of transferred files as well as give better …
Learn how to get started with the Next.js JavaScript framework. Through building a full-stack recipe app with Next.js, Sanity.io, and Vercel, you will learn how to set up dynamic routing, pre-render, pull content from external APIs, set up serverless functions, offer real-time content previews, and deploy your app on the …
Angular developers rarely have the need to write super optimized code. In Angular application development we tend to favor readability over optimization. But this approach doesn’t guarantee fast execution of the JavaScript code. With frameworks, the situation is reversed. Frameworks have to be really fast.
Commenting JavaScript code is a more nuanced thing than we give it credit for. There are a couple of schools of thought on this. One states that if you feel a comment is necessary, you should rewrite it to be more legible. This is true. But it is also not …
