What’s New in ES2019?
ES2019 or ES10 is the 2019 version of JavaScript. After the major 2015 update, JavaScript has been evolving every year. Developers get a small set of useful features, that helps us balance between...
View ArticleHigher Order Functions in JavaScript
In this article, you will learn about higher order functions. An important cornerstone of functional programming is higher order functions. If you want to write programs in mostly functional style, it...
View ArticleA Practical Introduction to ES2017 Async-Await
The ability to write asynchronous functions is a major update in ES2017. In order to understand this chapter, I suggest that you review the chapter on promises. What are asynchronous functions?...
View ArticleTranslating SQL Queries using Map-Reduce-Filter in JavaScript
Exercise: Suppose the following tables are given in the form of arrays of objects: var inventory = [ { id: 1, owner: 1, name: 'Sword', weight: 10, value: 100 }, { id: 2, owner: 1, name: 'Shield',...
View ArticleHow Replacing JavaScript Templating Engines with ES6 Template Literals May...
The article ES6 Strings and Template Literals introduced you to the syntax of ES6 strings and template literals. However, if you wanted to use ES6 template literals for microtemplating, the article...
View ArticleJavaScript Tech Interview Exercise 9: Event Delegation in a Pomodoro App
You might not know about me that I have conducted tech interviews with over 500 software developers from more than twenty countries with the objective of identifying and hiring the best talent. I have...
View ArticleBinary Trees, Recursion, Tail Call Optimization in JavaScript
You might not know about me that I have conducted tech interviews with over 500 software developers from more than twenty countries with the objective of identifying and hiring the best talent. I have...
View ArticleJavaScript Tech Interview Exercise 5: Connect-4 Solver in ES6
This interview question is also available as a video on my Youtube channel. You might not know about me that I have conducted tech interviews with over 500 software developers from more than twenty...
View ArticleTen JavaScript Theory Questions – The ES6 Quiz
There are countless questions your interviewers may ask when it comes to how JavaScript works. The idea behind asking these questions is to assess whether you have recent experience in writing...
View ArticleContainer Components and Stateless Functional Components in React
In the article Building a Chat Component in React and ES6, we learned a way to create React components: import React from 'react'; class SimpleComponent extends React.Component { render() { return (...
View ArticleCreating Controlled Components in React
In this short article, you will get a chance to learn what controlled components are and why they are beneficial. Suppose a component has an input field with a value depending on the state of the...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial – ES6 Arrow Functions with 3 Exercises
In this article, I will introduce my new Youtube channel with two videos. Both videos are from ES6 in Practice. By watching these short videos, you can learn about Arrow Functions, and you can also put...
View ArticleBuilding a chat component in React and ES6
This is the third part of the React-Redux series. In the first part, we introduced React and Redux. Although there was no code in the article, clarifying the concepts is still important. In the second...
View ArticleES6 Iterators and Generators – 6 exercises and solutions
This article is a section from the workbook of ES6 in Practice. I created this course during the last couple of months, because there is an evident need for a resource that helps JavaScript developers...
View ArticleIntroduction to Immutable.js
Most developers emphasize immutability when dealing with functional programming. Code written in functional style is testable, because the functions operate on data treated as immutable. In practice...
View ArticleAre JavaScript Comments Useless?
Should I write comments in my code? Should I avoid them at all costs? Should I use them sparingly? When developing software, all developers have their view on how and when to use comments. This article...
View ArticleFunctional and Object Oriented Programming with Higher Order Functions
A higher order function is a function whose argument list or return value includes a function. Knowledge about higher order functions is essential when writing programs both in functional and in object...
View ArticleCloning Objects in JavaScript
JavaScript made its way from being a toy language for simple animations to becoming a language for client side and server side web application development. Some generic concepts also made their way to...
View ArticleFunctional Programming with ECMAScript6
The ES6 standard is expected this June. This means significant changes in writing Javascript code in general. Among other features, ECMAScript6 is equipped with a strong utility belt supporting...
View ArticleUnderscore Templating
Most software are developed by applying the principles of object oriented programming or functional programming. We will practice the latter approach by solving a problem related to presentation and...
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