Tips and tricks I learned throughout the years.
JavaScript looks familiar to many engineers, but behaves differently in all the places that matter. Here I share practical lessons that help whether you're just getting started or already shipping in production.
Recently, I needed to create a function that fades from one color to the other. CSS3 makes the job very easy by making use of the transition property. However I needed to use this functionality inside a canvas element, m…
If you ever animated anything with JavaScript then you know that it is a very manual process. You call a function and make your changes incrementally until the animation is completed. With CSS3 you can make animation, bu…
It's inevitable. Images take a longer time to load then anything else on your page. If you are trying to load an image gallery for example, you have to give the user some feedback to let him know that something is happen…
Computers are getting faster. Mobile devices are catching up too. Browsing the web on your phone no longer needs to be an inferior experience. But despite all this advancement in technology JavaScript is still slow. Fast…
Relative to other languages, learning JavaScript is a much easier process. It's easy to use it to add a functionality to your website. For example making a pop up appear after a click is only a few lines of code. You can…
There are two ways to think of type coercion in JavaScript. One is to the dictionary definition, which is the conversion of values into common data types to facilitate operations like comparison. The other, is the things…
The beauty of nodejs is that you don't have to work with the DOM. On the browser, that's where JavaScript power lies. The only problem is it is terribly slows. DOM access are the most expensive transactions. It is my tur…
Every URL you type on this website are handled through one script. It is a common standard with many framework. The script in question is called a Router. It takes any URL you give it, and returns the proper functions to…