Link to the eBook on Gumroad — https://gum.co/LikDD JavaScript is quite complex and confusing for newbies and even for pros in the field. The dynamically typed nature and so many inconsistencies and buggy behavior make it hard to master. This book explains the most complex parts of JavaScript in simple…

Yet another JavaScript framework. The JavaScript ecosystem is rapidly evolving and with it is the release of several JS frameworks to help developers build and ship faster and robust apps with ease tailored to their needs. Each JS framework brings its unique super-power to the game. In this post, we…

Yet another framework on the block. It is no news that the JavaScript community has been growing steadily and with that hundreds of frameworks have been reeled out more than we can comprehend and keep up with. Now, most of the stable JavaScript frameworks have also frameworks built on top…

Understanding JavaScript’s Memory Model, with Examples. — Once we begin to type that code, we already introduce bugs and allocating memory without knowing it. How we manage them can make or mar our software. In this post, we will learn, using examples, about memory leaks in Nodejs and how we can solve them. In our effort to…

Moon.js is a minimalistic JavaScript library for building fast, functional UI. — Yet another JavaScript framework on the block. It seems like these frameworks are being churned out at an ever-increasing rate. The newest JavaScript framework I’ll be introducing in this post is — Moon.js. What we will learn We will learn how to scaffold a Moon.js project, set up a basic…

You may find that you need to set up a fast GraphQL server to test your frontend app’s behavior. Trying to do so, you quickly discover that creating even the simplest GraphQL server can be a very tedious task. We need a simple way to serve JSON objects, very fast…

REST has grown steadily over the years and has now become the ideal way for systems interaction over the internet. It has grown to have a great advantage over the older kids: SOAP, and XML-RPC. REST is being used by thousands of companies and startups. REST is preferred by its…

Errors and bugs are a fact of life. There’s no way to avoid them. The only thing we can do is to minimize the chances of them by: Identifying errors and weeding them out using automated testings (the subject of this blog post). Reusing components that have “proven” themselves to…

As the name implies, the typeof keyword is used to determine the types of data. This is one of the most common JS keywords found in JS apps. Knowing the type of data you are working on is often found crucial. In this post, we will look into the typeof…