JavaScript has a concurrency model based on an event loop, which is responsible for executing the code, collecting and processing events, and executing queued sub-tasks. (more…)

Recently, we have seen an uptick of JavaScript tools being written in languages other than JavaScript. This blog post lists a few examples and explains the appeal of not using JavaScript. (more…)

The Closure compiler is an amazing tool for optimizing JavaScript. In this post I will show how to use it in some common scenarios. For the purposes of this post I will be using the closure compiler with ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS.

Thanksgiving is about to arrive in the US and, as every year, millions of people and I are preparing our shopping lists for Thanksgiving dinner. I thought this is a good opportunity to flex my codi… (more…)

Generators are functions which can be exited and later re-entered. Their context (variable bindings) will be saved across re-entrances. (more…)