This isn’t a Hacker News rant complaining about the state of JS. I promise. Pun not intended.

In just over an hour, I coded a TodoMVC App with modern (ES6+) vanilla JavaScript. The comparison to the previous JS TodoMVC from 6 years ago was shocking! (more…)

Code readability is a big thing. Developers spend a lot of our time reading code: other peoples code, our own code, code we have never seen before, etc. Writing code in a way that is as readable as possible can help save everyone on your team a lot of tim... (more…)

JavaScript Automatic Semicolon insertion happens because semicolons are optional in JavaScript. Be careful while using curly braces with return statements. (more…)

Modern JavaScript offers size and performance improvements over transpiled ES5, and is supported in 95% of web browsers. Enabling modern JavaScript output brings these benefits to your application, but the impact is limited by dependencies that are alread... (more…)