The destructuring assignment in JavaScript is one of those things that you might never see yourself using, but that might be just the thing ...read more
Posted on: 1/25/2021 - 5 min read
How use-strict affects your JavaScript code
You might be familiar with seeing the following directive at the top of JavaScript files....read more
Posted on: 2/25/2020 - 3 min read
Working with Maps in ECMAScript 6
In my last post I went over the Set() data structure that was introduced with ECMAScript 6. Today I will be going over t...read more
Posted on: 2/18/2020 - 3 min read
Working with Sets in JavaScript
ECMAScript 6 introduced the new Set type into its toolset. What are Set's? Essentially they are an ordered list of values that hav...read more
Posted on: 10/17/2019 - 3 min read
How JavaScript optimizes tail calls
A commonly seen useful shorthand when writing code is the ability to call a function as a return statement....read more
Posted on: 8/22/2019 - 2 min read
Creating functions dynamically with JavaScript
The Function constructor is something that isn't usually talked about in JavaScript circles, but it is a useful mechanism to have ...read more
Posted on: 8/15/2019 - 3 min read
JavaScript Tagged Templates (ES6)
There is one feature in JavaScript (ES6) that many developers are totally unaware of and one that can be very beneficial in your p...read more
Posted on: 7/25/2019 - 6 min read
Working with ES6 classes and objects
ES2015 introduced a new syntax into the JavaScript specification that finally allows us to create classes in a much cleaner way than th...read more
Posted on: 5/10/2019 - 3 min read
How the Spread operator works in ES6
The Spread operator is one of those concepts in JavaScript that, while you appreciate what it does, you just can't ever quite seem to find t...read more
Posted on: 4/30/2019 - 4 min read
How to use block bindings in ES6
For a long time now, declaring variables using the standard var keyword was commonplace in JavaScript. While super easy to use, it was not w...read more
If you have not kept up with the many changes that JavaScript has gone through during the past few years, then maybe now is the time to inco...read more