Category: javascript

Getting creative with JavaScript

March 18, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Shader Park: Create Interactive 2D and 3D Shaders with JavaScript — An open source Web-based platform, community, and library for simplifying the mystifying world of shaders and GPUs by letting you create them procedurally with JavaScript. Lots to play with and explore here. Note: This…

What is PostgreSQL?

March 17, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Postgres (or PostgreSQL) is a powerful open-source relational database that supports both SQL (relational) and JSON (non-relational) querying. It was created by scientists from the University of California at Berkeley. It is a very stable object-oriented database management system. The PostgreSQL community has grown for…

What is Material UI?

March 15, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Material-UI (MUI) is a CSS framework that provides React components out-of-the-box and follows Google’s Material Design launched in 2014. MUI makes it possible to use different components to create a UI for a company’s web and mobile apps. Google uses Material Design to guarantee that no matter…

What is Webpack?

March 11, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Webpack is a module bundler that lets you compile JavaScript modules (Files, Images, Fonts, JS, CSS, HTML, etc.). Webpack offers multiple functions, like merging modules, code minimization (or minimizing code by eliminating spaces, remarks, junk code, and code reduction), SASS or TypeScript compiling, integration with…

Bringing static type syntax into JavaScript itself

March 11, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

🤦 Thanks to all readers who noticed we made a mistake with last week’s subject line “TypeScript 2.6 released” – rather than the intended 4.6. We were only 4 years late with that news 😉 Rest assured, more caffeine has been consumed today.. Credit: Daniel Rosenwasser…

What is Node.js?

March 6, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

NodeJS is a backend JavaScript runtime environment (RTE) designed in 2009 by Ryan Dahl, that is used to build server-side applications like websites and internal API services. Node.js is also a cross-platform stack, meaning that applications can be run on such operating systems as macOS,…

10 KPI Templates and Dashboards for Tracking KPI’s

March 5, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a modern instrument to make a system (business, for example) work effectively. KPIs show how successful the business is, or how professional the employee is. It works with the help of measurable values, that are intended to show…

TypeScript 2.6 released

March 4, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

TypeScript 4.6 Released (And It Even Benefits Non-TS Users!) — The typed superset of JavaScript takes another step forward with the addition of the es2022 target, allowing code in constructors before super(), improved recursion depth checks, more syntax errors that can be detected in JavaScript…

What is Angular

March 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Angular is a client-side open-source JavaScript-based front-end framework, which is used to build custom applications in HTML, CSS and Typescript. AngularJS was launched in 2009 by Misko Hevery and Adam Abrons as a project at Google.  It is a front-end JavaScript framework, which was…

How to read the spec behind JavaScript

February 25, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Learn the Fundamentals of Rx.js — This useful JavaScript library is great for managing events that happen over time, and in this detailed video course Steve Kinney covers what you need to know to make use of it — including observables, events, intervals, timers, operators,…