Hello World with JS and Setting up your Development Environment... (more…)

One gotcha that comes up frequently and has a serious impact on application performance is the tendency to accidentally fetch data in… (more…)

I spend most of my time on this blog talking about Clojure, but IRL I work on a lot of projects written in a lot of languages. Lately, much of my time has been spent writing and maintaining React-based frontends in Javascript. (more…)

Ben McCormick's blog on JavaScript and Web Development... (more…)

Let's say you have a search feature on your website that you want to live-update while the user types. The naive implementation would be to send a query to your server on every keystroke. This quickly falls apart, however, because users easily type faster... (more…)