Thoughts, explanations, and musings, usually on web development.
Imagine we have some JavaScript on a page that updates an element’s contents and immediately logs those contents out: After loading the page, you’d correctly expect that “updated text” will be displayed on the screen. And when it’s exposed via that…
I’ve used Tailwind CSS for a few projects over the last several months, and it’s been steadily growing on me — to the point of it becoming my go-to tool for styling new projects. At the same time, I’m seeing a lot of people ask what all the hype is…
A while back, I began contributing to a small JavaScript library responsible for sending a POST request with some data to an endpoint. At the time, it used axios to make that request, and I wanted to simplify things by shedding a dependency. The…
A post on behalf of my team about why growing in your craft requires writing more than just code.
A guest post in which I explore some of the times you might consider using “old school” approaches in JavaScript in order to avoid particularly heavy Babel transformations.
Modern iterations of JavaScript have introduced some nice methods that make writing code a lot more legible, performant, and fun to write. Take, for example, the method on the prototype, which allows you to elegantly retrieve the first item in an…
A while back, I started working in a Rails application in which I needed to introduce a JavaScript file that’d be compiled with Webpacker. To do so, I created the file in my directory and loaded it up via : Locally, things worked great! But once I…
I’m writing a Gutenberg block for TypeIt that’ll allow content creators to easily drop typewriter effects into WordPress. The Gutenberg infrastructure is heavily rooted in the React ecosystem, so building a block feels very much like building a React…
I’ve been seeing my preference change in how I write simple conditional statements in JavaScript. Consider the following: Back in the day, that’s how just about every “if I have this, then do this” statement looked. As complexity and context changed…
BernieSanders.js - a helper library for making next-generation punch card programs for the browser. ElizabethWarren.js - a probability and statistics library widely used in reservation casinos. AmyKlobuchar.js - a highly opinionated alternative to…