Creating Objects in Javascript allows complex functionality while exposing only certain functions. Sometimes it's helpful to expose Object properties as well and unless they're simply read-write attributes, it may not be immediately clear how to how[...]
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I bought my first book on JavaScript somewhere around 1998, and the topic of String manipulation was limited to using the "+" operator to join two strings and using the "+=" operator to append to an existing string. For the most part little changed[...]
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While exploring the details of ES6, one of the first things that you'll read about is the new class keyword.
It's not really something new, rather a new way to do the same thing we were doing before.
It's simply a different way to create JavaScript[...]
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We often see clients with IT teams and projects that, over time, suffer from software erosion.
The business requirements, or the IT landscape around the software, are changing faster than the software.
The software team is no longer able to deliver[...]
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Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast and scalable network applications.
It provides an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O for application throughput and scalability.
That's all well and[...]
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Node.js is an amazing platform for creating dynamic web applications.
It handles high volumes easily and the npm ecosystem provides hundreds of modules that
include some very good pre-built features but, like anything, Node.js has it's limitations.[...]
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