Category: JavaScript
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Is jQuery still a thing?
There’s a big stigma around using jQuery lately . It seems like everyone is insistent on avoiding it in modern JavaScript development. Lately developers are all talking about things like TypeScript, ECMA2015+, and the current flavor of the month framework. I think this is silly. jQuery is still very much relevant in 2017 — it […]
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Free React Course
High quality online and in person resources for learning the React ecosystem from the creators of React Router. Source: Learn React from the creators of React Router
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Reacting to React: setup a base project
I wanted to have a step by step procedure to have a basic React project to fiddle with, without using some online service like JSFiddle. Maybe I’m an old-fashioned developer, but I like to have the source code for my experiments on my hard drive, always available, even when I’m offline. That’s also why in […]
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Reacting to React – Episode 2
What to do after following the official React tutorial? My suggestion is RTFM! (React docs) It’s not sexy, it’s not appealing but it’s like medicine: you’ll not like it, but it will make you feel good. I know what you’re thinking: “I don’t need the manual. Show me some code, show me how to make a […]
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Reacting to React – Episode 1
I have not given to much attention to React as everyone else. I was in love with Backbone and Marionette.js at the time and “My views are fine, thank you. I don’t need yet another view library!”. But in the end, I thought that it was a good time to begin looking at this “JavaScript […]
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Sapere prima di fare (sulla coincidenza)
Ecco un altro episodio che mi ha insegnato come sia necessario sapere prima di fare. Il compito che mi era stato assegnato era semplicissimo: mostrare una data formattata in JavaScript, tipo 7 Ottobre 2012. Che difficoltà poteva esserci?