Currying vs Partial Application
In this post we'll cover a couple techniques in Javascript that are common among functional languages: currying and partial application. You don't need a background in functional programming to understand... »
Dave Atchley
Musings of a caffeinated coder
Promise Patterns & Anti-Patterns
I covered the basics of ES6 Promises in a previous post; and as promised (I hate puns), here are some of the best practices, patterns and anti-patterns that I've come... »
ES6 Promises
In a previous article I covered the topic of doing asynchronous programming in the browser with callbacks and continuation passing style. However, there is a better pattern using Promises, which... »
Asynchronous in the Browser
Asynchronous programming can be a hard thing to wrap your head around as a programmer if you're used to direct, synchronous style programming. In the browser, the most familiar form... »
Understanding Prototypes, Delegation & Composition
In the last post we covered the basics of creating and using Javascript objects, which included using new to invoke functions as constructors. In this post, we're going to focus... »
Object-ively Javascript
Part 4 of a series on Javascript Fundamentals. See the full list of posts The goal of this post is to, at a high level, cover some of the basics... »
.map, .reduce & .filter, Oh My!
Part 3 of a series on Javascript Fundamentals. See the full list of posts Making use of Javascript's map(), reduce() and filter() Array methods can help you write more declarative,... »
Functions
Part 2 of a series on Javascript Fundamentals. See Part 1 on Scope in Javascript. Declaration, Expression, Invoking I don't want to belabor the basics of function declaration and definition... »
Basic Scope
Part 1 of a fundamentals series covering Javascript basics that I routinely come across in mentoring junior developers. It's common for Javascript developers at all levels to deal with scope... »