Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Heatwave. (more…)

We’ve all heard the term “10x JavaScript developer” before. And if you haven’t up until this point, consider yourself lucky.

This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 2nd was about Mixmax’s new Sequence Picker SDK. As of this writing, Mixmax has open-sourced dozens of packages in our primary language, JavaScript. The li... (more…)

Nullish coalescing is a brand new logical operator (??) for the JavaScript programming language. Let’s take a look at one practical… (more…)

Ever since I read Malte Ubl’s proposal for a JavaScript bundle syntax, I’ve been fascinated by the question: does JavaScript need a “bundle” standard? Unfortunately that que… (more…)