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Web Frameworks: Conclusions

November 10, 2017
It has come time to read the liner notes and write some conclusions. When we started writing this blog series, we knew that JavaScript/web application frameworks were not easy to…

Enterprise Application Redesign: From the Bottom Up

November 8, 2017
Not long ago, good design was considered nice to have, but non-essential to a product or company. In today’s market, however, good design has become a commodity. The apps we…

What is Intern 4?

November 6, 2017
Intern is complete JavaScript test stack, with support for the entire testing lifecycle. Intern 4 keeps many of the internals of Intern 3, but updates the external interface and usage…

TypeScript 2.6 and strict functions

November 2, 2017
TypeScript 2.6 was released on the 31st of October. It is a moderately sized release like many of the other of the more rapid releases from the TypeScript team over…

Common TypeScript Error Messages

November 1, 2017
Whenever you start working with a new programming language or framework, you need to learn a new collection of error messages and how to resolve them. Sometimes those messages are…

Web Frameworks: Community

October 31, 2017
It is like the old proverb, “It takes a village to raise a web framework.” As we explored in the previous post, choosing a framework goes beyond the technical features…

State of Modules in JavaScript

October 26, 2017
Many modern web applications depend on JavaScript. When the complexity of your JavaScript increases, so does the maintenance cost. To improve the maintenance of complex JavaScript codebases, you most likely…

How to Choose A Web Development Partner

October 24, 2017
typescript

Learn TypeScript

October 17, 2017
Best Practices

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Developers

October 17, 2017
Best Practices

Caveman Coders and How to Defend Against Them

October 17, 2017
typescript

TypeScript TL;DR

October 17, 2017
JavaScript

State of JS 2017

October 17, 2017
node

Overview of Electron

October 17, 2017
typescript

How ES6 and TypeScript have greatly improved Dojo 2

October 17, 2017
browser

Improving Performance with the Paint Timing API

October 6, 2017
Introduction Outline Accessing paint metrics from JavaScript Reporting paint timing metrics to a server Viewing paint metrics in the Chrome DevTools Browser Implementations Traditionally, front-end performance focused primarily on page…
automation

Browser Automation with Puppeteer

October 4, 2017
Automating browsers provide many benefits including faster execution of repetitive tasks, ability to parallelise workloads and improved test coverage for your website. Google recently announced Puppeteer, a new tool to…

Web Frameworks: Soundness

October 3, 2017
For a web framework to be effective, it should offer you more than just functionality. It doesn’t matter how much hard work you put into your application if it breaks…
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A Guide to Faster Web App I/O and Data Operations with Streams

October 2, 2017
Why should you care about streams? On the modern web platform, many interesting features appear which enable new functionality which were not previously possible, for example, Web Bluetooth, Background Sync…

Efficient testing of Angular with Intern

September 22, 2017
Intern is an incredibly powerful and feature-rich approach to all types of JavaScript and TypeScript testing. Intern 4 is a major update refactored in TypeScript and with much improved support…

Blockchain Basics

September 21, 2017
“Blockchain” is the newest term to enter the tech industry’s buzzword repertoire. Whether a company is processing sub-second banking transactions or transporting artisanal goat cheeses across state lines, it seems…

TalkScript Podcast Episode 5

September 20, 2017
The gang carries on without Torrey and discusses Web Audio and its application. Then the team commiserates on their issues with npm 5. Speakers Nick Nisi on Twitter Paul Shannon…

Rethinking Inheritance

September 19, 2017
Over the past year we’ve been heads-down working hard on Dojo 2 and its component architecture. The ability to change default component behavior is essential to a widget library, and…

Using Web Components With Angular

September 14, 2017
Angular is an application framework favored by many in the JavaScript community. Angular provides a library for building encapsulated components, dependency injection, a templating language with data binding, an application…

Polymer Summit 2017

September 13, 2017
Recently I was fortunate to be able to attend the Google Polymer Summit in Copenhagen with a SitePen colleague. Having attended the PWA Summit last year in Amsterdam we were…