Introduction No one would like to work with the code having one gigantic JavaScript file with many unrelated functions. Moreover, when you need to use few of the functions from that file, you end up loading all the others unnecessarily. AMD was a g... (more…)

Earlier this week we took a look at new features coming in ES2016. Today we’ll learn about async / await.The async / await feature didn’t make the cut for … (more…)

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Static code analysis is code review performed by a computer. It helps find & fix code quality issues and streamlines manual review. Here’s how to set it up. (more…)

In this blog post, I take a different approach to explaining `this` in JavaScript: I pretend that arrow functions are the real functions and ordinary functions a special construct for methods. I think it makes `this` easier to understand – give it a try. (more…)