When It Makes Sense to Use a Utility Function Instead of a Polyfill
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,
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Why Webpacker Wouldn't Compile Assets in a Specific Environment
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
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Clean Up Your Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates
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
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Streamlining Conditional Statements with Logical Operators
I’ve been seeing my preference change in how I write simple conditional statements in JavaScript. Consider the following: if (snack) { eat(snack);}Back in the day,
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If Democratic Candidates were JavaScript Packages
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
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A Plot Proposal for Frozen III
Kristoff, seeking a career more marketable than being an iceman, enrolls in a coding bootcamp in the Southern Isles, where a bitter and vengeful Prince
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For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers
I’ve been tinkering with the Web Worker API lately, and as a result, I’m really feeling the guilt of not looking into this well-supported tool
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Blog for Your Own Sake
The front-end development space is exhausting. It moves too fast, contains too much, and it won’t wait for you to catch up. It’s hard. One
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Building a Shell Function to Copy the Latest Commit SHA
Frequently enough, I find myself needing to copy the SHA of the latest commit in project, and doing it manually was becoming a chore. I’d
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Should We All Start Implementing Differential Serving?
There’s been a lot of discussion around the potential to serve browsers the JavaScript bundles they can support. For example, if a user’s on Internet
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Deploying Code with a Git Hook on a DigitalOcean Droplet
I’ve been working on a project involving long-running, resource-intensive batch jobs in Node. At first, when my needs were simpler, I used Heroku to run
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A Simpler Unit Testing Setup for WordPress
When I was getting started in web development, I remember how conceptually overwhelming it was to understand the whys, whats, and hows around things like
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Creating a .map() Method for Objects, Strings, Sets, and Maps
It’s a well-established truth of the universe that JavaScript’s Array.prototype.map() is one of the best parts of the language, allowing us to write cleaner, simpler
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Remember to Probably Target an Empty Object with Object.assign()
Hearken back, for a moment, to what it was like merging objects in 2014. There was no support for the feature in JavaScript runtimes themselves,
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Formatting PHP More Efficiently with a Bash Function
For quite some time now, I’ve been working with a PHP application that, up until recently, had no clearly-defined coding standards in place. At some
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