Category: Front-End

Writing good code is important — writing code that’s easily human readable is a next level skill. It’s not often that APIs are introduced whose seemingly only useful function is making code more readable, but let me introduce you to JavaScript numeric separators: an API that lets developers use underscores to make numbers more readable!… Continue reading JavaScript Numeric Separators

Search engine optimization is big business; both SEO experts and their customers want to track the effectiveness of their keywords, campaigns, and competition. To get and measure those results, however, you need the right tooling monitor those results. SEObase is an awesome tool for doing just that — monitoring keywords and results across search engines!… Continue reading Monitor Your SEO Placement with SEObase

The landscape of security is changing quite a bit. We’ve gone from basic username and password to 2FA, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and so on. Hell, my Mac unlocks simply when I have my Apple Watch near by. In the end, I probably use the Mac fingerprint key the most. One functionality that still requires… Continue reading Use Touch ID for sudo on Mac

Last week I tweeted all of you looking for your best JavaScript Array and Promise tricks, and as always, it didn’t disappoint — I learned quite a bit! Today’s JavaScript Promise trick is brought to you by Claudio Semeraro: how to use catch to set a default value instead of a try/catch: // Instead of… Continue reading Return a Default Value with Promises Using catch

There are numerous reasons to want to know which files have been added or modified in a git repository, one of which is your text editor highlighting those files. Another use case is running tasks against only files which are presently changed, like lint or other validation routines. So how can we identify files which… Continue reading Detect Changed Files with git

The need for position: sticky was around for years before it was implemented natively, and I can boast that I implemented it with JavaScript and scroll events for ages. Eventually we got position: sticky, and it works well from a visual perspective, but I wondered how can we determine when the element actually became pinned… Continue reading How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned

The Promise API changed the game in JavaScript. We went from abusing setTimeouts and settling for synchronous operations to doing everything possible to leverage this new async API. Let’s check out a handful of awesome Promise API tricks! One problem we instantly complained about with promises was not being able to cancel them. A simple… Continue reading 5 Awesome JavaScript Promise Tricks