With the introduction of static typing to JavaScript through libraries like Flow.js and Typescript, some have found them totally unnecessary. Making the Angular2 docs default to TypeScript examples even caused more rage for people that wanted to use Angular and were not prepared to deal with a new technology or simply do not understand the benefits of static typing. There is also a tendency that you just like them without knowing why you use them [...]
A Beginners Bible for Web Animations
There are various articles out there that index tools that can be used to perform animations on the web but they often just enlist tools without an explanation of why and when to use the listed tools. This is to serve as a guide and also a learning path for anyone looking to get into web animations the right way. You could slap redundant animations on existing websites and feel happy about that, but it usually would not give your users the best e [...]
Animating React Applications
Animation is king in the 21st century. When you look around, you could almost see real world objects interpreting as digital animations. Ever noticed how futuristic movies have moving images in newspapers? Or the animated hologram commercials on streets? This is because businesses cannot and will not resist leveraging on the attention and attraction of humans to moving objects. Marketing has been the biggest income generator for businesses... The [...]
Being Productive on the Command Line
No matter how you try to run from it, developers often find themselves on the command line so if you have always told yourself that the CLI sucks, then I think it is time to embrace it and stop having a terminal that looks like this: A bland default macOS terminal Think of that more as sticking to the default terminal configuration rather than the actual look of the terminal. You could have such a minimalist but powerful terminal. You m [...]
Debugging JavaScript Without Fatigue
If you have ever written any code, you most likely have also written a bug. Bugs come up very frequently in programming, and JavaScript is no exception. Debugging is a necessary skill for every programmer, which makes it admirable that one of the things tested for at X-Team is debugging skill or debuggability. The only programmer that does not need to learn debugging is one who does not program, because the only source code files without bugs are [...]