As part of being an editor here at SitePoint, one of my responsibilities is to commission new content for the channel. I always have one eye on the various newsletters, aggregators, and blogs for topics that might be important or interesting to our readers. The stats collected for each article we publish go some way to...
This is the editorial from our latest JavaScript newsletter, you can subscribe here. Hey everyone, welcome to a brand new year on SitePoint JavaScript. I hope you had a great break (for those of you that took one) and are ready to start off 2017 with a bang. 2016 was a crazy year for JavaScript! We saw an ever increasi...
Another year is almost over and, of course, a year is a long time for the web. As 2016 draws to a close, the retrospective articles start to appear, looking back on the most important changes of the last 12 months (keep your eyes peeled for ours next week). One thing that I doubt anyone is unaware of (unless you’...
When was the last time you wrote some ES6 code? A recent developer survey called The State of JavaScript reported that 74% of respondents have already used the new syntax and intend to do so again. A further 21% have heard of it and are interested in learning. The ES2015 version of JavaScript (referred to as ES6 from h...
We love our themed weeks here on SitePoint. Earlier this year we had IoT week, which saw us (me in my tin hat) publishing articles focused on the intersection of the internet and the physical world. The week was a big success, and so now we’re back by popular demand with an entire week dedicated to all things ope...
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the role of JavaScript in modern web pages and web apps. It all seems to have kicked off with an amusing (but not entirely untrue) article entitled How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 in which the author expresses his concern at the fragmented state of the Jav...
Facebook has made a big splash this past week with the announcement of its new JavaScript package manager, Yarn. Your initial reaction may be similar to mine when I first heard this: isn’t another package manager the last thing we need?! It seemed that, despite the upheaval of a seemingly never-ending parade of n...
The web industry moves at a blistering pace and it can often feel like it’s difficult to keep up. This is especially true of JavaScript land where frameworks are going in and out of fashion all the time, each with their own way of accomplishing the same basic tasks. So how do you keep your skill set relevant? Ove...
This is the editorial from my latest JavaScript newsletter, you can subscribe here. Occasionally while browsing the web I come across some cool project or library that does something I’d never thought about doing (or didn’t know could be done) with JavaScript. I suppose it just goes to prove Atwood’s ...
I wrote a post last summer where I identified myself as a web designer in light of my experience in front-end web development. The response was pretty overwhelming and has stuck with me ever since. What stuck with me most is how relative job descriptions are in web development. I might be a web designer standing next t...
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