Remy Sharp’s write-up of several patterns that have emerged from his usage of promises. By itself I feel like this one winds up reading a lot like a few other Promise-related posts that I’ve seen (and/or like an inverse of this anti-patterns post) — but his discussion around throw vs. reject is worth the price of admission.
Planning A Front-end JavaScript Application:
Thoughtful piece by Cody Lindley over on the Telerik Developer Network. Even if you don’t agree with all of his points, he definitely sketches out a good framework for how to approach the problem of getting your application off the ground.
A couple of additional points here:
Again: look past any knee-jerk disagreements you might have (e.g., API first development; e.g., no RWD for “web apps”) and draw out the larger questions.
AngularJS Performance in Large Applications:
Abraham Polishchuk presents us with a fairly comprehensive break-down of some performance do’s-and-don’t’s for large AngularJS applications. (Although there’s nothing in here specifically about the sizes of the applications themselves.) He covers some basic JavaScript performance techniques at the beginning before diving into the AngularJS specific items. The key takeaways seem to be (1) to limit the number and contents of scopes and (2) to avoid the AngularJS event system. Some of it reads like FUD (“Don’t use filters!”) but there’s also good advice here, especially w/r/t/ limiting scope and in particular his points about limiting the use of `$watch`.
That being said: this seems to align with my recent criticism — that it isn’t so much that AngularJS itself isn’t performant, but that it’s (arguably) too easy (using the “by default” features) to get youself into a poor performance situation.
Learning AngularJS Magic: Expressions: Neville Samuell presents a very approachable and easily digestible explanation of AngularJS expressions. He introduces the $parse service and goes as far as introducing the lexer, which is great because by the end…
Regulex：JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer.:
Pretty nifty little tool that generates railroad diagrams for your regular expressions.
Meta programming with ECMAScript 6 proxies:
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer’s thorough discussion of ES6 proxies.
What you should know about JavaScript regular expressions: Bjorn Tipling on the quirky corners of regular expressions in JavaScript.
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) — Medium:
Erik D. Kennedy:
This is the Krav Maga of screens.
Definitely worth reading, especially if you’re one of those folks that tends to think that great design only comes from this small subset of “talented” people. Nope: there are a few basic rules, and you can learn them. (And here’s part two.)
leftoversalad:
Jeff Whelpley, “Screw You, Angular”: Recently there has been a great little triangle of battles going on among Ember, React and Angular. The reason why these debates are so great is that each of the frameworks have various pieces that are pure genius (ex. Angular DI, React Virtual DOM, Ember Router) and it is not […]