Javascript

Suppose your package.json specifies a Node engine of <= 24. Will all engineers on your team use Node 24? Not necessarily, unless you use this one weird trick! ...

Want to learn a tricky topic and sharpen your learning skills at the same time? In this post, I’ll use the Feynman Learning Technique— a method of learning complex things by explaining them simply— with a sprinkle of LLM magic, to deepen my understanding of JavaScript promises. ...

The Node REPL has its own editor: node > .editor // Entering editor mode (Ctrl+D to finish, Ctrl+C to cancel) const increment = (array) => array.map(item => item + 1) increment([1,2,3]) Exit and evaluate with Ctrl+D: [ 2, 3, 4 ] I’d use this to experiment with JavaScript API’s without leaving my terminal-based IDE.

I’ve added TypeScript to several projects I’ve worked on. In this post, I’d like to discuss why I think TypeScript is essential and document my expectations around it. ...

Exploring your JS dependencies locally is a great way to learn and experiment. Here’s how to load a dependency from your /node_modules directory into the Node REPL. $ node > cn = require('classnames') > cn("always", { never: false, sometimes: true }) 'always sometimes'

Absolute imports are an essential developer experience feature for me in any JavaScript application. In this post, I’ll explain what they are and why they matter. ...

Today in “Let JavaScript Surprise You”: let array = [1, 20, 11, 10, 7, 17, 2]; console.log(array.sort()); > [1, 10, 11, 17, 2, 20, 7] 😳 The numbers are not sorted as we might expect. What’s going on here? From Mozilla’s docs: The default sort order is ascending, built upon converting the elements into strings, then comparing their sequences of UTF-16 code units values. Now this sorting makes sense! Luckily, sort accepts a function, so here’s the sorting we intended: const sortNumbers = (first, second) => first - second console.log(array.sort(sortNumbers)) > [1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 17, 20]

Have you ever wanted to create a timer in a React app? This could be in support of a UI timer or polling. In this post, I’ll explain how to create a timer effect in a React application using hooks and setInterval. ...

Have you ever wanted to take a JavaScript array of strings and turn them into a sentence? Here’s how you do that. const toLearn = [ 'object-oriented programming', 'frontend engineering', 'testing', ] const sentence = new Intl.ListFormat().format(toLearn) > "object-oriented programming, frontend engineering, and testing" ListFormat takes options. This has cross-browser support! The days of building a ’to sentence’ function in JavaScript are over.

When printing a JavaScript value to the console, I suggest using an object literal over the raw value. ...