Musings of a caffeinated coder
Having been using ES6 for some time now, I've been seemingly immune to the pernicious ES5 related for-loop+async scoping problem. Every Javascript developer has encountered this at some point;... »
Recursion is a control flow construct. It allows us to have a function call itself and repeat an operation until it arrives at a result. Many functional languages are built... »
So, since I've been swamped with work recently and haven't posted much, I'd like to get back into the swing of things and throw up a simple EventEmitter implementation I... »
In our previous post on functional programming we began introducing some functional themes by working through requirements for processing a typical JSON response. Here's a recap of our requirements: filter... »
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... »
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,... »