WebAssembly (wasm) is an emerging standard – the future is coming. The support in browsers is already growing – what we still need is lowering the entry barrier for us, developers. Luckily, that is soon to be changed. I want to present you with a quick overview of something, that quite struck me – compiling […]
There are two types of clones in JavaScript: deep, and shallow. To fully understand the difference, we need to dive deeper into how the interpreter treats different types of variables. Let’s go! Primitive types null undefined boolean number string symbol These are the types that are immutable. Some of you might be surprised – we […]
First things first: JavaScript code being asynchronous does not implicate it running in more than one thread. So what does asynchronous mean exactly? Imagine making an Ajax request to fetch some data from the server. You won’t get a response immediately – you need to wait a little bit for the server to respond. What […]