Posts tagged #javascript

Sometimes you keep hearing words but you're not actually sure what they mean, but you're too afraid to ask and keep forgetting to Google it. For me, two of those phrases have been "JavaScript runtime" and "JavaScript engine". I've never studied Comp Sci at uni, and I've never practically needed...

Let's start with a correct, but pretty dense, definition: JavaScript Promises are a first-class abstraction for handling asynchronous actions, like: Fetching data from a remote API. Reading or writing (i.e. opening or saving) a file to the filesystem (in a server-side environment, not in a browser). Retrieving a non-blurred-up version...

Sometimes you hear something so often that you don't really hear it anymore. One of those things for me is words to the effect of "How does this JavaScript code even run?". I choose to interpret this generously as "How does JavaScript itself run", and not "how does this hot...

A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with someone about modern web design, and we spoke about web fonts and variable fonts. In my experience, people who work in software development have a couple of hills that they will die on, if so required. For this person -...

The elders tell us of a time where you would build websites by literally writing your .html files. If you wanted to add some styles, you'd write them in a .css file and then \<link rel="stylesheet"> the two together. So you'd write your entire site in semantic HTML, about whatever...