This article was originally published on OKTA Blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are the newest technology on the web dev block, and they’ve arrived just in time to solve a growing problem. Many companies are struggling to keep isolated develop...
In this article, I want to take you through an example project that I built recently — a totally original type of visualization using the D3 library, which showcases how each of these components add up to make D3 a great library to learn. D3 stands for Data Driven Documents. It’s a JavaScript library that can be us...
Axios is a popular, promise-based HTTP client that sports an easy-to-use API and can be used in both the browser and Node.js. Making HTTP requests to fetch or save data is one of the most common tasks a client-side JavaScript application will need to do. Third-party libraries — especially jQuery — have long been a ...
Front-end frameworks are great. They abstract away much of the complexity of building a single-page application (SPA) and help you organize your code in an intelligible manner as your project grows. However, there’s a flip side: these frameworks come with a degree overhead and can introduce complexity of their own. T...
Debugging JavaScript isn’t the most fun aspect of JavaScript programming, but it’s a vital skill. This article covers two tools that will help you debug JavaScript like a pro. Imagine for a moment that the console.log() function did not exist in JavaScript. I’m pretty sure the first question you’...
In this article, I’ll focus on must-have VS Code extensions for JavaScript developers. Visual Studio Code is undoubtedly the most popular lightweight code editor today. It does borrow heavily from other popular code editors, mostly Sublime Text and Atom. However, its success mainly comes from its ability to provide b...
In this article, we’re going to look at creating a build setup for handling modern JavaScript (running in web browsers) using Babel and Webpack. This is needed to ensure that our modern JavaScript code in particular is made compatible with a wider range of browsers than it might otherwise be. JavaScript, like most we...
There can be no doubt that React has revolutionized the way we build user interfaces. It’s easy to learn and greatly facilitates creating reusable components that offer your site a consistent look and feel. However, as React only takes care of the view layer of an application, it doesn’t enforce any specific archit...
This article focuses on Angular directives — what are they, how to use them, and to build our own. Directives are perhaps the most important bit of an Angular application, and if we think about it, the most-used Angular unit, the component, is actually a directive. An Angular component isn’t more than a directi...
In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to build a basic Twitter client with NodeJS, and an Angular application to display your home timeline of tweets. This is a rapid tour with things to consider while setting up your own Twitter client and Angular application. First, we’re going to build a NodeJS server, wh...
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