JavaScript is particularly difficult to implement efficiently because most of its expressions have all sorts of different meanings that involve all sorts of ... (more…)

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…)

I wanted to talk to you about a problem in our community that we need to address. (more…)

On the surface, Meteor supports the same ECMAScript import and export syntax as many other web frameworks, bundlers, and build tools. Like most of those projects, we too use Babel to configure and… (more…)

"Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin (a.k.a. Uncle Bob) is particularly helpful in the practice of day-to-day software development. But how relevant is it now?