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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... »
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... »
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 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... »
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... »
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... »
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,... »
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... »
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... »