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Debugging, "the process of finding and resolving defects within a computer system"[1], is a critical skill for software development.

Debugging, "the process of finding and resolving defects within a computer system"[1], is a critical skill for software development.

Update: As of Deno v1.4, there is a built in watch mode that you can enable with the --watch flag.

You can parse command-line arguments in Deno with the standard flags module: import { parse } from "https://deno.land/std/flags/mod.ts"; console.dir(parse(Deno.args)); deno run https://deno.land/std/examples/flags.ts -a beep -b boop { _: [], a: 'beep',…

Let's say I have two promises: the former resolves in three seconds, while the latter resolves in five.

This playlist has been updated.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about publishing my first YouTube video.

Deno is a secure runtine for JavaScript, so to read a file the program needs explicit permissions.

To read any file in Node.js, you need to import the fs or file system module.

Yesterday, I published my first video on YouTube: "Three Ways To Open The Firefox DevTools".

For a recent project, I wanted to display the browser and version on the screen.

This site was forked from the Eleventy base blog and uses Nunjucks templates.

Imagine that you want to store data to look up the continent for every country in the world.

As a web developer, one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal is the browser's developer tools.

Custom emojis are a fun way to customize your Slack workplace.

This is an alphabetical list that has helped shape the way that I think about software engineering.

I previously wrote about testing UI components, and why I recommend that you don't use snapshots.

As a front-end engineer, I spend a lot of time jumping in-between JavaScript projects.

Reviewing a recent code exercise at work, we came across a situation where a candidate wanted to ensure that there were no duplicates in an array of objects.

This site is powered by Eleventy, a simple static-site generator.

Default parameters are a handy feature in JavaScript.

At some time in the future, I would like to return to the classroom to teach programming to middle school students.

In April of 2018, I wrote an article "How to use emojis in React".

If you are writing tests for React components in 2019, you will probably find your way to Airbnb's Enzyme testing utilities.

At my previous company, all commit messages need to begin with a ticket name and number from Jira.

I have a hard time remembering the difference between two common programming terms: arguments, and parameters.

🆕 Update: I created a reusable function to listen for class changes on any element that is more robust that the solution here.

This past week I was working with a new coworker who has previous experience developing but is new to React.

Medium has received a lot of flack recently for their push to monetize the platform.

Updated - 3/9/19 This article was initially released with a reference to a third tool for React accessibility checking: react-a11y.

There are tons of reasons to learn a programming language.

Whether you are simulating a die roll or pulling any index from an array, computers can be used to generate a random number.

A ternary or conditional operator is like an inline if statement.

In the fall of 2018, I had the good pleasure of attending the Connect.Tech conference in Atlanta, GA.

Last year, the React team announced hooks, a feature to more easily abstract logic into reusable components.

It's been a year since Michael Jackson published "Use a Render Prop!"