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JavaScript Selectors API
Dealing with the DOM can be a very tedious process. Traversing the DOM can quickly clutter your code with nested loops. For years, [...]
Promises in JavaScript
Writing code in an async programming framework like node.js becomes super complex and unbearably ugly super fast. You are dealing with [...]
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 a user action on a web [...]
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, tightly wrapping [...]
Image Beacons
Using image beacons is one of those popular techniques that you would probably know about without knowing its name. The technique helps [...]
Understanding JavaScript Currying
I recently fully understood the concept of utilising Currying in JavaScript. The core concept can be grasped from these references: [...]
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 to native objects. [...]
JavaScript Random String Generator
I needed a random string for various purposes. For example, to provide a unique ID to HTML elements via JavaScript. The code below is a [...]
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 aspects of my [...]
Encapsulation: Private Attribute
In JavaScript OOP there are attributes called private attributes. Knowing if an attribute is private or public, an API user can focus on [...]
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 the [...]
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 a global variable named [...]