The import() operator lets us dynamically load ECMAScript modules. But they can also be used to evaluate JavaScript code (as Andrea Giammarchi recently pointed out to me), as an alternative to eval(). This blog post explains how that works. (more…)

At XO Group, we primarily work with Node and Ruby to build out our system of interconnected services. We get the implicit performance… (more…)

The way you create and access your data can affect your app’s performance. Let’s see how. (more…)

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This is episode three of the JavaScript Snippet Series. In Episode one, we discussed three methods of getting unique values from JavaScript. In Episode two we discussed some ways to sort arrays in JavaScript. In this article, we will be looking at... (more…)