The JAMstack is a methodology for building web apps that is based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup. I think that the emphasis on build-time rendering has interesting implications for all web developers, and I made a little video about it while working on a presentation about it for a group of Back-End developers.
I tried doing it in a fun “pop-up video” style, and I’d love to know what you think about it!
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We learn all about JAMstack in real-time as Michael lowers the bar with new jokes, Allen submits a pull request, and Joe still owes us a tattoo.
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[Read more…]TL;DR: Don’t do weird stuff to JavaScript arrays.
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In the standard definition of Array data structures in Computer Science, arrays are a collection of like elements where any member may be accessed by an index. That definition doesn’t sound very different from an Hash Table or it’s ilk, but the key distinctions here are that the elements of the array must take up the same size in memory, and that the array indexes need to be numeric so that the logical address of any individual element can be derived from that number.
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We begin our journey into data structures by taking a deep dive into primitives while Allen makes Michael blush and Joe crashes his browser.
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Joe’s voice sounds funny, Allen has a theme, and Michael pours one out for Media Play as Michael’s and Allen’s impersonation of Joe is on point (#NailedIt).
I recently(ish) had the pleasure of having React-xpert Zac Braddy show me around the React JavaScript framework. It was a great time, and I got to learn a ton about React and ES6.
While not pair-programming in the traditional sense (as I pretty much knew nothing about React,) Zac was a great sport about the whole thing and I’m really happy with how the series turned out.
I’ve tried to procedurally generate music from scratch a few times in other languages over the years, but since this is a “couch project” I spent a couple minutes searching for NPM libraries and settled on ScribbleTune.
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Welcome to another Mini Code Adventure, an attempt to highlight fun programming projects that you can get started in minutes.
This week we’re starting with the maze code we wrote last time, and using the game-of-life-logic npm package to demonstrate Conway’s Game of Life.
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Welcome to the first Mini Code Adventure, a new series of blog posts and videos that highlight fun and exciting projects that you get running in minutes.
We recommend you have a basic understanding of HTML, JavaScript and NodeJs to proceed. We also assume you already have NodeJS installed, so make sure you have it installed! Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, lets…
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In this episode we dive into Javascript Promises. If you’re used to the olden way of doing an async call with a callback, you’ll definitely want to give this episode a listen as you could improve your mental sanity 10 fold by learning how to use promises in your application!
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