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• By David WalshSeptember 10, 2019

  How to Not Minify Source with webpack

  The webpack JavaScript utility has taken over the modern JavaScript landscape, so much so that it's hard to be a JavaScript developer and not use it. JavaScript build utilities are the point where they do best practices implicitly, like minify code, caching, and more.I was...

• By Landon SchroppSeptember 9, 2019

  Stop Installing Packages Globally

  These days, most front-end projects are going to involve NPM packages of some kind. Occasionally, when browsing documentation for these packages, I’ll see a recommendation to install a package like this.Or like this.In both of these examples, the package is installed globally. This means you can...

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• By David WalshAugust 28, 2019

  Reverse Lookups with JavaScript

  I've always loved exploring regular expressions because they're one of those skills that's never taught in school -- you need to pick them up on the fly, messing up and fixing them along the way. Regex's are incredibly powerful, and one power they have are...

• By David WalshAugust 27, 2019

  How to Build Firefox

  Open source is a dream and a gateway to an amazing career -- I'm a testament to that. One of the most amazing open source projects to ever exist, Mozilla Firefox, is a project I'm proud to work on as an employee of Mozilla. It's rewarding...

• By David WalshAugust 26, 2019

  45 Web Tools To Master The Internet

  A big part of our daily jobs is accomplished with much ease and efficiency by using different web tools and services. There is no doubt that for any type of need there is a great solution that is doing its job.In this article, we are reviewed...

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• By David WalshAugust 22, 2019

  Promises and Static Values

  Async can throw a real wrench into the cogs of our programming workflows, all despite the fact that async is the modern JavaScript pattern. While async/await helps, there's sometimes confusion about the way to have a single function that returns a value whether it exists...

• By David WalshAugust 19, 2019

  Mercurial Tips

  While most of the world seems to be using git for version control, Mozilla continues to use Mercurial (hg) to manage the Firefox source code. As a git and GitHub lover, it took me a while to get used to Mercurial. I...

• By David WalshAugust 18, 2019

  Data URIs

  We're all familiar with traditional URI protocols like https, http, ftp, and file, but data URIs have become a large part of our online strategy. We can use them to display images, the Mac camera and webcams, and more. But what if we simply...

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• By David WalshAugust 8, 2019

  How to Crop Videos

  During a recent episode of the Script and Style podcast, I had noticed that the video recording had showed a bit of our internal chat that wasn't necessary for our viewers to see. While there's nothing wrong with giving viewers a peek into the show...

• By David WalshAugust 5, 2019

  then on Objects

  Promises were a revelation in JavaScript development, allowing us to enjoy async processing and avoid callback hell. Many new APIs like Battery API, Cache API, and others use the promise API. One fact you may not know is that you can add...