JavaScript Tutorials
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Clickjacking
JavaScript security is a big business and for all of the right reasons. JavaScript lets us do incredible things on the front end but some of those incredible things are for eval evil. Spyjax used to be one of those evil things but browsers seem to...
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Fixing Coercion, Not The Symptoms
TL;DR Your complaints of
x == ybehaviors being weird, buggy, or downright broken have all blamed==as the culprit. No, it's really not.==is pretty helpful, actually. The problems you're having are not with the==operator itself, but with the underlying values and how...
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Visual Regression Testing For Angular Applications
I recently planned a major CSS refactoring project to transition a large e-commerce site from an antiquated 1024px design to a more modern, responsive design. This situation is of course not unique. Responsive design has officially made it's way from UX blogs to the corner office -...
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Detect Problems in JavaScript Automatically with ESLint
When writing JavaScript, I spend a lot of time fixing basic mistakes. I often rename a variable and test my app, and then find I didn’t rename the variable in one spot. I rename functions, same thing. I type things wrong, and again waste time clicking...
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5 Ways to Make Your Site Smaller and Faster
Confession: I'd say once a week I genuinely wish I was a kid who spent his work day cutting grass and doing landscaping. Why? Because at the end of the day, they are able to say "the grass is cut, the job is complete." As Web Developers, we...
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ES6 in io.js
io.js - the famous Node.js fork recently put out their initial release touting the slogan "Bringing ES6 to the Node Community!". io.js got these features ahead of Node.js by aggressively following the latest versions of the V8 JavaScript engine. As an outsider looking in...
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JavaScript Errors and How to Fix Them
JavaScript can be a nightmare to debug: Some errors it gives can be very difficult to understand at first, and the line numbers given aren’t always helpful either. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a list where you could look to find out what they mean...
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Detect “Do Not Track” with JavaScript
Do Not Track is an excellent idea. The DNT website describes it best: Do Not Track is a technology and policy proposal that enables users to opt out of tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms. At...
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Is WebGL the Technology of the Future? What’s AexolGL?
Many companies and people from the IT world claim that WebGL is the technology of future. Is this a correct statement? WebGL has many advantages, one of its biggest is that it is a technology that could revolutionise the gaming experience. With WebGL we can play...
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Change Tab Title with JavaScript
Changing the tab (or window) title is an age old practice. Gmail does it to notify the user of a new chat message and this blog does it to update the tab title after a new page loads via AJAX. How is it done? By setting a property...
