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JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages, with different components, frameworks and tools. One of the most popular is Visual Studio or VS Code, a lightweight code editor. It borrows heavily from other popular editors, such as Atom and Sublime Text.
Being a UI developer, I’ve learned one thing: It doesn’t matter how carefully you write your code. Suppose you’ve double-checked that you defined and called all functions the right way or followed all the best practices. Even then you’ll see that a tiny variable can sneak behind and create an error. Now, suppose you find out that for some unknown …
Finding slow JavaScript code can be a tricky problem to solve. Small code changes can have a big impact on the performance of your code. Fortunately, many different approaches can help you nail down the exact source of the problem. In this post, you’ll learn about three methods that’ll bring you the results you’re seeking. You can trust manual code …
My computer programming teacher had always told me that 10% of our time is spent developing 90% of our application, and the other 90% of our time finishing the last 10% of our project. Even with a good project plan and a concept that makes logical sense, most of our time will be consumed with fixing errors. Moreover, with JavaScript, …
Running into errors on your WordPress website is often daunting. Most errors offer some clue as to what caused them, making it easier to troubleshoot. Unfortunately, the 503 Error isn’t as simple and doesn’t offer the same information. The 503 Error in WordPress signifies your website cannot be reached as a result of the associated server being inaccessible. This occurs …
JavaScript has come a long way in recent years. Browsers are becoming more robust and machines are growing more powerful. Pair this with the recent development of Node.js for execution of JavaScript on servers, and you can understand why JavaScript has exploded in popularity. Developers continue to push the boundaries of what can be done with JavaScript, which leads to ever more …
“Nobody expected this, but JavaScript has become the world’s most important programming language today” —Douglas Crockford, JavaScript Architect at PayPal What is Javascript? JavaScript is a simple and easy-to-learn programming language as compared to other languages such as C++, Ruby, and Python. It is a high-level, interpreted language that can easily be embedded with languages like HTML. It was …
TypeScript (TS) and JavaScript (JS) are two widely known languages in the development world, but what are the differences and what use cases are better suited for one over the other? In this post, we’ll compare the two languages, how they relate to one another, discuss their primary differences, and outline the benefits of each. Defining TypeScript TypeScript is an open source syntactic …
When JavaScript is used in conjunction with XML or REST APIs, you can create some useful behaviors with a set of web-development techniques collectively known as Ajax. Let’s take a look at a specific Ajax functionality: returning an Ajax response from an asynchronous JavaScript call. First, What is Ajax? Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax, isn’t a new technology in itself, …
