Webpack 4 brought us some changes. Among things like faster bundling, it introduced SplitChunksPlugin, which made CommonsChunksPlugin obsolete. In this article, you will learn how to split your output code to improve the performance of our application. The idea of code splitting First things first: what exactly is code splitting in webpack? It allows you […]
Functions are one of the most basic features of JavaScript. Have you ever wondered how exactly do they work? After all, they are just a special kind of objects. If you are curious, dig into them with me in this article! The basics of functions Speaking practically, a function is a subprogram that can be called […]
Mastering your tools as a developer is a very important thing. One of them is Node Package Manager – and quite a crucial one for a JavaScript developer. Having a better understanding how dependencies work will improve your workflow greatly and help to avoid many problems both for you and your fellow developers. Today we will cover […]
We covered quite a few features of regex so far. There is a lot more, though. Today we will deal with more advanced concepts, like groping and cover more of the RegExp object features in JavaScript. We will also learn how to use some of the features that ES6 brought us. Let’s go! exec It […]
Hello again! Today we are back to regular expressions in JavaScript. If you are new to them, check out the first part of the course. This time we will learn how to write more elegant patterns and define the position of searched strings. The shorter way to define repetitions Recently we’ve learned, that the asterisk, […]
Regular expressions (regex) are sequences of characters defining a search pattern. Since it can be extremely useful in programmers everyday life, it was implemented into JavaScript. In this series of articles, I will show you how it works and what are its real-life usages. Hopefully, by the end of this part of the course, you […]
Generators are a new feature introduced in ES6, and as I’ve promised in the article about async/await last week, we will cover them today. Iterators In JavaScript an iterator is an object that provides a next() method which returns the next item in the sequence. The first concept to understand here is the iterator. You might […]
Back in the days, we used callbacks. Then, we were blessed with promises. The journey does not stop there, though. ES7 introduced us to a new way of handling asynchronous calls: async/await. Feel free to read my other articles if you would like to know more about async in general, or callbacks and promises. The purpose […]
There is a good chance that you are already using promises in your code – they are everywhere now. Have you ever considered how they work, though? I this article I want to explain why they are a good thing and what problems do they solve. I will do that while implementing quite a ludicrous sorting […]
Variable values have certain types. In fact, you can cast a value of one type to the other. If you do it explicitly, it is type casting (also called explicit coercion). If it happens in the background when you are trying to perform an operation on types that do not match, it is called coercion (sometimes referred to […]