Some people still seem surprised that JavaScript is regarded as a respectable, grown-up programming language for serious applications. In fact, JavaScript development has been maturing nicely for ...

IntroductionContinuing from last time, I will provide a code explanation for a "Behavior Diary" app that is completed ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

If you have a JavaScript (*.js) file containing code, it's not unusual for your code to reference code held in another JavaScript file. If you're using more recent versions of Visual Studio, you'll ...

The effect that asynchronous code has on the structure of your program is easy to understand in terms of what code goes before and what code goes after: The statements that are before the asynchronous ...

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: a search function. The ...

Microsoft has created a built-in JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, the wildly popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a ...