The MDN Web Docs Learning Area teaches fundamentals of modern web development, beginning with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript essentials. In feedback this year, readers asked for a more opinionated, structured ...
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With the growing popularity of JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue, testing your client-side code is becoming even more vital. When it comes to test frameworks, there are two major…
This is the story of how frontend engineers at Podio improved productivity, developer experience and reduced technical debt simply by ditching Karma and Jasmine in favour of Mocha and jsdom. Testing…
Get types like string, number, null, or custom classes at runtime. V8 can now collect type information. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript engine. Chrome, Node.js, and many other applications use…
JS Bin is a tool for experimenting with web languages. In particular HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but JS Bin also supports other languages too (like Markdown, Jade and Sass).
Those of you upgrading npm to its latest version, npm@5.2.0, might notice that it installs a new binary alongside the usual npm: npx. npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using…
You can write your Webpack config in Typescript, and it’ll save you a huge amount of pain. Webpack’s docs would lead you to believe that using Typescript requires a hacky customized set up, but in…
On its third major release, Webpack introduced a new feature: scope hoisting. Many developers are already exposing data showing great positive impacts on the initial execution time of their bundles…
How to set up a project with JavaScript and Sass. It’s essential to divide JavaScript and CSS code into small and concise parts. We make it easier for ourselves and others to manage it, and also to understand and maintain it later. Browsers on the…
webpack is a module bundler. It packs CommonJs/AMD modules i. e. for the browser. Allows to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand.
The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web.
RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.
You may already be familiar with the basic features of the Chrome Developer Tools: the DOM inspector, styles panel, and JavaScript console. But there are a number of lesser-known features that can…
React is usually pretty fast, but it’s easy to make small mistakes that lead to performance issues. Slow component mounts, deep component trees, and unnecessary render cycles can quickly add up to an…
Selenium is an open source automation tool and definitely a great JavaScript automated testing framework which supports all operating systems and browsers such…