Avoiding a JavaScript MonocultureSitePointThis article was peer reviewed by Tom Greco, Dan Prince and Mallory van Achterberg. Thanks to all of SitePoint's peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! JavaScript, as a language, has some fundamental shortcomings — I think the …
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Parallel JavaScript with ParallelJSSitePointBy its own construction, JavaScript is executed in a single thread mediated by an event loop (usually following the reactor pattern). For example, this gives us some nice abstraction for handling asynchronous requests to (external) resources. It also …
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JavaScript: 2015 in ReviewSitePointJavaScript had a remarkable year. Despite reaching the grand age of twenty in May, news, projects and interest in the language continue to grow exponentially. Perhaps it's the strange circles I move in, but I can't think of another technology which …
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Roll Your Own Copy to Clipboard Feature in 20 Lines of JavaScriptSitePointUsing the OS clipboard is a basic IT skill. As a developer, you've learned that tab, Ctrl/Cmd+A, Ctrl/Cmd+C followed by Ctrl/Cmd+V will highlight, copy and paste in an instant. Life is less easy for regular users. Even if a user knows what the …
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An Overview of JavaScript Templating EnginesSitePointThis article was peer reviewed by Chris Perry and Ritesh Kumar. Thanks to all of SitePoint's peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! In this article we're going to give an overview of templating in JavaScript. We'll first …
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Experimenting with Object.observe in JavaScriptSitePointI recently built a quick prototype to get the classic interactive movie game Night Trap running in the browser. Assets stream from Azure Media Services and play through the open source video.js player as an .mp4. I also converted all of the video to …
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