Not too long ago, React made a jump from version 0.14 to 15.0. Following this major jump, the first major version update has arrived. Let’s examine what surprises React 16.0 holds for us. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! Facebook claims they […]
Javascript Libraries
In this article, I will share my future plans with you about this tech blog. People who like to work with ES6, React, Redux, automated testing, and acceptance testing with Selenium, will like the new path. You will soon read […]
The New Path – Lessons Learned This Year
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 though, I see this principle violated from time to time. I will present […]
Introduction to Immutable.js
What is focus? Concentration of power. When writing Javascript code, most of us focus on solving very complex problems. While dedicating intellectual capacity to the solution, small code quality mistakes are often made. It takes time and effort to fix […]
ESLint for Better Productivity and Higher Accuracy
First of all, check out this bug report. This is not the first bug report on the Date object I have ever seen, but it motivated me to share a couple of related observations and experiences with you. More importantly, […]
Handling Time in Javascript – Inspired by the Bug Report of the ...
Backbone is one of the least opiniated libraries that help you organize your code. Backbone just gives you models, collections, routers, views, a history object and events. The rest is up to you. This means that if you enjoy typing […]
Reducing Boilerplate in Backbone
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 filtering of data. We will use the UnderscoreJs library for the […]
Underscore Templating
The below instructions describe how a new Backbone project can be set up. Even though there are automatized solutions to perform all these steps, I find it important to go through these steps at least once. There are many excellent […]
Setting Up a Backbone-Marionette Application
UnderscoreJs is a utility-belt library for Javascript providing a set of functions well known from the world of functional programming. These utility functions allow software development in a stateless way, without side-effects. Javascript objects have to be treated as immutable […]