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…
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…
Observing Intersection Observers September 5, 2017 As developing for the web has matured and JavaScript engines have become faster, one area remains a significant bottleneck – rendering. It’s because of this that so many of the…
Five of our favorite emerging web standards August 31, 2017 As we create and improve open source software, and build many applications for our customers, we’re constantly looking for things that will improve the software we create. Part of this…
Getting started with Intern 4 August 30, 2017 Unless you have a time machine or a TARDIS, it’s pretty rare to have solid documentation in place before an open source project is released! While we’re getting close to…
Web Frameworks: Testing August 29, 2017 Test early, test often, and test some more. Why put our heart and soul into our web applications only to be let down because we are not completely testing them.…
Web Frameworks: Using and Developing August 23, 2017 Let’s figure out how to play our album. Is it a 45 vinyl or some sort of fancy SACD? Gaining insight into how we might develop and deploy an application…
State of Modern Component Styling August 17, 2017 As new user interface component frameworks are created and old frameworks are replaced with emerging technologies, methods for styling those components must change with them. Long gone are the days…
Higher Order Components in React August 15, 2017 Traditionally, engineers use mixins, decorators, inheritance, and plain code duplication to add common functionality to a handful of components. Mixins and decorators can modify the target object in such a…
TalkScript Podcast Episode 4 August 10, 2017 We complete our series of interviews from NEJS Conf by talking to Kim Crayton about Overcoming the Challenges of Mentoring. Speakers Kim Crayton on GitHub Neil Roberts on Twitter Listen…
Web Frameworks: Common Usage August 10, 2017 Previously on Web Frameworks, we looked at how various frameworks deal with the concept of applications. Akin to listening to the whole album, we got a sense of how the…
TalkScript Podcast Episode 3 August 9, 2017 We continue our interviews from NEJS Conf – We talk to Lucas Fernandes da Costa about his talk What Can We Learn from JavaScript Fatigue and Jonathan Mills gives us…
Wrapping Web Components With React August 8, 2017 There are many reasons to like React. It provides a nice library for writing reusable components and leverages its own virtual DOM, abstracting away the obtuse native DOM APIs in…
FullStack 2017 Recap August 7, 2017 FullStack is JavaScript conference in London hosted at the Skills Matter CodeNode. This year the conference provided a wide variety of interesting talks and topics related to JavaScript, exposing the…
TalkScript Podcast Episode 2 August 7, 2017 We talk about Nick and Neil’s adventures at the NEJS Conference and listen to Neil’s interviews with conference speakers Divya Sasidharan (In VDOM we Trust), Lon Ingram (Performance Perf) and…
Web Frameworks: Applications August 3, 2017 Applications built with web technologies, something that was a curiosity a few short years ago, have emerged onto the scene as a must have for most organizations. Transcending websites and…
Less Clicking, More Binging August 1, 2017 Whether it’s Game of Thrones or an old season of Rupaul’s Drag Race, it’s pretty likely you’ll be streaming something tonight from your TV. Netflix, Hulu, Sling — these are…
The State of Internationalization in JavaScript July 19, 2017 As businesses expand into new markets and existing markets become more diverse, it is increasingly rare that enterprise applications can expect to serve speakers of only one language, with identical…
Event Delegation: Pattern or Anti-Pattern? July 11, 2017 A significant amount of work on JavaScript toolkits and frameworks has centered around trying to fix, normalize, and optimize browser implementations. Doing so requires making many assumptions about what the…
