Thou shalt not depend on me: analysing the use of outdated JavaScript libraries on the web Lauinger et al., NDSS 2017 Just based on the paper title alone, if you had to guess what the situation is … (more…)

railroad-diagrams - :steam_locomotive: A small JS+SVG library for drawing railroad syntax diagrams. Now with a Python port! (more…)

Welcome to post # 4 of the series dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and… (more…)

A friend of mine asked me, which build tool he should use for his JavaScript project. He was like "Npm, Bower, Gulp, or Webpack? I don't know!"... (more…)

It’s fascinating to consider what makes one framework or library more popular than another. While I don’t have a definitive answer to that question, I do have a bit of data that provides a snapshot of JavaScript framework usage over the past year. It’s wo... (more…)