Posts Tagged "js"
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The pitfalls of transpilation: class inheritance in Javascript
It’s 2018 and modern build pipelines have become quite standard across front-end projects. Having a transpiler like Babel to produce browser-agnostic Javascript is the default nowadays so you can writ...
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OpenLayers for new players
One really quick thing I want to write about today is OpenLayers and a common pitfall I come across when writing mapping code. I originally came across this when writing code for a GovHack project, bu...
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What I learnt about writing React in 2017
Over the past month or so, I’ve gotten some real world experience of React in a project, where I’m replacing existing front-end code with quite a large footprint and significant complexity. I’ve previ...
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Digging a bit deeper into Angular 1.x components
I’ve been playing around with Angular components at work lately, and attempting to mentally map my understanding of Angular components against the concepts found in React components, which I’ve had so...
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Rapid embedded development with React and Node
As previously mentioned, this semester I enrolled in a new subject, Prototyping Physical Interactions, which involves learning how to utilize embedded hardware such as arduinos, to create flexible and...
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Managing JavaScript in SharePoint (Using RequireJS)
SharePoint is a collaboration tool that developers and other IT professionals love to hate. It works to the point where businesses are happy to leave it as their main "information sharing and...
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A Quick & Dirty Intro to RequireJS
Module loading in Javascript is still finnicky in 2015; here's a guide to making your life a little easier with the popular RequireJS library. The creation and loading of Javascript modules is s...
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CoffeeScript Says What?
CoffeeScript has some misleading syntax. Here's why. So I've been playing around with CoffeeScript a little, and it seems to be for all intents and purposes a Javascript preprocessor with Python-l...
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Code Year 2012
Just saw on Lifehacker a website started by the web app that I've previously mentioned on my blog, Codeacademy, where they send weekly emails for their new interactive coding program. "Make your Ne...