JavaScript has gone from being a marketing ploy to gain a tactical advantage, to becoming the core programming experience in the world’s most widely used application runtime platform. Where to, next?

Sadly, you do not currently appear to have permission to access https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04107... (more…)

The OpenAI Codex JavaScript Sandbox and the API which backs it, have (rightly!) generated a lot of interest and comment in the development community. When faced with something so different to what we expect, it's easy to assume it's all magic. In this pos... (more…)

Double-click the code to edit the tutorial and try your own code.This tutorial contains code and discussion from the upcoming book Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig.

I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned... (more…)