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Monday, February 27, 2023

Custom Events in JavaScript MVC

Events are the bread and butter in UI development. They are frequently used to kick off JavaScript to deal with…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Cutting Loose: Dynamic Namespacing in JavaScript

Most of the JavaScript libraries come wrapped in an easy to refer single object. The object acts as a namespace,…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Image Beacons

Using image beacons is one of those popular techniques that you would probably know about without knowing its name. The technique helps…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Understanding JavaScript Currying

I recently fully understood the concept of utilizing Currying in JavaScript. The core concept can be grasped from these references: Wikipedia entry on…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

How and Why to Avoid ‘for’ Loops

Never again use for() for looping. Using for() can be dangerous, especially if you use a library which adds attributes…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

JavaScript Random String Generator

I needed a random string for various purposes. For example, to provide a unique ID to HTML elements via JavaScript.…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

John Resig’s Inheritance

John Resig, the creator of jQuery, has created this JavaScript inheritance code. I am still using it now to simplify several…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Encapsulation: Private Attribute

In JavaScript OOP there are attributes called private attributes. Knowing if an attribute is private or public, an API user…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Encapsulation: Private and Public Methods

When it comes to developing APIs, self documenting code is very important, in order to simplify users’ effort in filtering…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Giving Object Context to Function Calls

JavaScript has a dynamic object named this. By default, this equals to the global object container, so if we have…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Self Documenting Flexible Parameters

Changing the number of JavaScript function parameters can be unproductive because of the need to update other code calling that…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Use ‘this’ Keyword with setTimeout()

setTimeout() is a great help to many JavaScript developers. For example, you may wish to add a delay to allow…