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You can also rephrase the question as: - Are you assuming full ES5 support when building libraries? - Are you assuming partial ES6 support when building libraries? - Are you pushin…

I'm not talking about Twitter snark or HN snark where an all-out nerd war can happen in a snap and nobody really cares. I'm talking about snark thrown in a Github issue . How do yo…

I have been doing web development for as long as I remember. I get by with tools that are needed for the job. I don't fancy the new and shiny. I just get things done fast and done …

I'm a member of an open source project. I tend to issues, answer questions, do house keeping, review some PRs, such and such. But I feel out of place because although I tend to the…

App: - HTML: Vanilla - CSS: Bootstrap 4 (SCSS) + node-sass - JS: Any framework (ES6) + Rollup + Babel Deployment: - Repo: GitLab - Host: GitLab Pages - CI: GitLab CI

Because electrical engineering and math. It's like a spectrum: Math [Uhm...math] Computer Science [algorithms] Computer Engineering [robotics] Electrical Engineering [electronics] …

First off, use a native app, Gmail or another email client. It's lighter since you aren't loading the UI resources like you would in a web app. It can also be set to store messages…

Apparently you haven't seen this comic: https://xkcd.com/927/ Got a question? Ask Stack Overflow. Want a reference? Get a real book. Want to learn programming? Go practice.

From the looks of it, you're essentially doing tracking. Won't be long before your solution also gets blocked by an ad blocker.

A system that gathers data about the current weather, date, time, weight, height etc. to... ...suggest you your breakfast, lunch and dinner. "you probably need a pizza today"

Promises alone, good for me. Promises + generators, they just created a monster. I'll probably be sticking to just promises for a while. JavaScript is becoming terrible these days …

> This means we never know where a function is being called from. Not really. Chrome dev tools has an "async" option which allows the stack trace to follow through async calls. You…

This depends on the browser. Dev tools are "smart". It knows where you should put a breakpoint (i.e: putting it on a blank line, it puts it on the next executable line instead). It…

> Should I focus on one language and become really good at it or work in multiple languages and stay mediocre? Both. Master one, but learn enough to be able get around with the oth…

Good try kid. But you ain't goin' nowhere with this FUD. - Life's too short to deal with cross-browser incompatibilities. - jQuery too heavy for you, there's Zepto. - Not at all ti…

Code level: Unit tests, peer-reviews. Integration: Automated UI testing. Functional: Humans, lots of them. Startups usually have very small teams. Take advantage of tools that do s…

> WITHOUT frameworks But... but... jQuery? :D Anyways, in real-world development, jQuery is still the #1 go-to tool. A little above vanilla, but not too much abstraction. It's just…

> What happens when a solely-responsible engineer quits a startup? - The management will try its best to keep the person. Raises, counter-offers, benefits will be put on the table.…

Most of the ES6 constructs are already available in Node 5 with no strings attached https://nodejs.org/en/docs/es6/#which-features-ship-with-nod... React has already been there for…

Finally. After struggling with their own package manager, they ultimately moved to npm.

> These libraries basically are JavaScript's "standard library"... they just happen to be optional. Optional is great and I'm siding on building APIs on the user-land side if possi…

> I don't understand why one guy pulling their repository off the npm servers affected others' projects. That's because 1) npm isn't immutable. The owner of a package can delete th…

Because the runtime is present? I mean, why should I install Java to build my JavaScript when Node is present? And wouldn't it be weird if pip served Ruby gems or Homebrew providin…

https://www.quora.com/How-is-Javascript-used-within-the-Spot...

The root of the problem is why FooBarComponent is a giant index.js. Also, why does it have React bundled if it expects to be a reusable component? Also, frameworks like React etc. …