The higher-level APIs provided an abstraction over the low-level stuff and were supposed to be cross-platform and easy to use. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out to be that easy to use.
Tag: javascript
Hello, Deno
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Deno v1 is here, and so is my experiment. Unlike my usual first programs, this one is a bit better than a pure “Hello, world”. So not only it is a meaningful program (does not literally print out “hello world”), it also has data models, unit tests and CI integration (Travis). From its documentation: A […]
Express API Refkit
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https://github.com/anuragbhd/express-api-refkit I frequently create APIs for muse/professional apps, and every time I find myself scrambling to pick the best pieces from my previously built APIs or online repositories. To streamline this, I recently created this reference kit (mostly for myself) to help me in writing a production-grade Express-based API from scratch. Sharing with this group in hopes that my fellow […]
The charm of functional programming
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While reading modern JavaScript code, you might have come across such things as Array.prototype.map(), Array.prototype.filter(), pure functions, higher order functions, the spread operator, etc. Basically, all the things that React and Redux made us write willingly or unwillingly. I am not going to spend the next 2-3 hrs going into finer details about FP. Instead, […]
Meetup: Enterprise JavaScript Version 2
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After 3 long months, we had the second edition of Enterprise JavaScript meetup. The first one was in June. It was an interesting meetup. 40-odd people signed up (RSVP’d) and 10 turned up. That’s a nearly 25% conversion rate. Not bad! Despite the small group size, we had a good time. Enterprise JavaScript: Building Beautiful […]
Meetup: Enterprise JavaScript Version 1
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As with a lot of other posts on my blog, this one is also delayed. I mean, A LOT delayed. The event happened in June, so you get the idea. In Delhi/NCR, not a lot of software meetups happen. The scene is maturing but is not yet on par with the other techie cities such […]
Stop Blindly Following W3Schools!
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I started out learning to create websites by reverse engineering web pages that I found and liked online. The way I got started with CSS is an interesting story. I started developing static websites at a young age. I produced mostly ugly pages by myself and a wee-bit jazzy ones using something like Macromedia DreamWeaver. […]
The joy of creating in Flutter
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I am now officially in love with Flutter. What started as a crush has turned into something palpable. For the past 2 weeks, I have been heavily invested in learning Flutter from App Brewery’s bootcamp-style course. If there’s one takeaway from the course, it is this: Flutter+Dart is a lethal combination. I have now come […]
Fetch API – was I living on Mars?
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I stumbled upon Fetch API today. It’s this simple: fetch(url) .then((resp) => resp.json()) // Transform the response object into json .then(function(data) { // Do what the hell I want to do with received JSON data }) })fetch(url) .then((resp) => resp.json()) // Transform the response object into json .then(function(data) { // Do what the hell I […]
Coding a neural network in plain JavaScript!
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Sounds completely insane, doesn’t it? Mattias Petter Johansson (mpj) has done just that. The best part is that mpj is as clueless about NN’s computer science or mathematical details as probably you are. He has posted a 3-part tutorial about it on his popular YouTube channel Fun Fun Function. I like to think of it […]