I believe that the event emitter implementation in Node could be made way better by providing a way to access the functionality directly without using prototypes. This …

A large number of JavaScript interview questions, if not most of them, can be answered with an understanding of scoping, how this works, and hoisting.

How scoping works is part of the latest chapter for my upcoming book on JavaScript Application Design. Here’s an explainer!

Creating client-side JavaScript packages is increasingly becoming a painful endeavor. Here’s a potential fix.

An introduction to function Array methods.

The event emitter pattern was popularized by Node, and is made available in the browser by libraries such as EventEmitter2. In practice, I haven’t seen a lot of …

We’ve looked at doing some of the things that you can do in native code. So far, we’ve covered AJAX, event handling, event delegation, DOM querying, and …

JavaScript libraries such as jQuery serve a great purpose in enabling and normalizing cross-browser behaviors of the DOM in such a way that it’s possible to use …

As of late, there seems to be a steady trend towards minimalist DOM (and BOM) abstractions, these micro-libraries generally trade functionality and flexibility for …

There have always been wars in browser-land. Browsers, specs, politics, lots of politics. Even libraries had theirs.

What once was the browser utility library war, has …

Last month, a series of very interesting articles regarding async coding style, in Node, popped up. The discussion spanned a few more subjects than just coding style, it …

More often than not, companies completely (and irresponsibly) disregard JavaScript as code that should be unit tested. They might test their back-end code, it may be in …

Even though it’s tricky at first, if you are used to classical object-oriented languages, it’s easy (and highly encouraged) to perform information hiding …

JavaScript is one of the most loved and hated languages out there. Some, can’t stand the stench of how obtuse it appears to be. Some appreciate the …

In my previous installment, I prognosticated the discussion topic for this post.

In the next post I’ll delve into MongoDB, how to pair it with Node, and figuring …

A few days passed, a couple lessons learned. I promised myself not to spend too much time trying to make something perfect, but rather keep a lean approach and moving …