Front-End Engineer. Always a student.
This series of articles are my notes on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), as it is in JavaScript. OOP is a popular programming paradigm that allows us a way to structure and maintain complex code.
Continue reading “OOP in JS: Series Introduction”In order for JavaScript to operate in the way that it does, it relies on three core components:
I am not covering the concept of asynchronicity here but I will go over that in a future note(s).
Continue reading “Core Components of JavaScript Execution”I knew GitHub supported emojis – I often use them in PR messages, comments, etc. What I didn’t know is that you can also add emojis in your commit messages.
Continue reading “TIL: GitHub Emojis”Up until now, we only had two ways to write a string in JavaScript – single and double quotes. If we wanted to interpolate a variable with one of these string options, we’d need to break out of the string and concatenate the variable.
As of ES2015, we are able to use Template Literals. These are string literals that allow embedded expressions.
Continue reading “JavaScript Template Literals”New with ES6, we have an additional way to write function expressions in our code – as arrow functions. This new syntax offers 3 main benefits:
this is lexically bound, meaning that it is not re-bound when you use an arrow function inside of another function – which is very helpful for asynchronous callbacksAs of ES6, we have two new ways to define variables, in addition to the classic var keyword. Each are a little bit different in their own way and I’ll break down those differences in this article.
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at WordCamp Greenville on CSS Grid Layout.
It was the very first WordCamp Greenville and also my first conference talk so it was a pretty exciting experience for me all around.
You can watch the full recording of my talk below:
Additionally, you can view my presentation slides here.
I’ve been looking for a good autocomplete plugin for Vim for a while. It seems like the most popular option by far is YouCompleteMe (which I have been using for a while now). While I think YouCompleteMe is a good plugin, I also feel like it’s a bit heavy and seems to need a lot to setup and maintain. I always seem to have issues with the server going down.
Basically, I just wanted a lighter option.
Continue reading “Vim Text Completion”There are instances where storing data in a users browser can be really helpful. Up until somewhat recently, saving the state of the application locally in the browser via Cookies was the main way to achieve this. Cookies have limitations, however. For example, their max size (4093 bytes) and the fact that they have to me transmitted with every request.
Continue reading “Intro to the Web Storage API”CSS Custom Properties, also commonly referred to as CSS Variables, is a specification that allows you to declare a property and use it later on in your stylesheet. This works similar to how you would declare a variable with a preprocessor.
Continue reading “Using CSS Custom Properties”