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Photo by Ed Telling during FullStackCon 2017. Table of Contents Overview Talk: TypeScript Decorators Talk: Npm, Gulp, Webpack, What the heck? Talk: AVA Test Runner - A fresh take on JavaScript Testing and Growing An Open-Source Project Keynote: State of JavaScript 2017 Lightning Talk: In 15 minutes you can build an API with LoopBack Lightning Talk: Using React Native to Create a Reusable Mobile App Architecture Talk: 5 Architect [...]
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 [...]
This blog marks the beginning of a new series on our blog. Unlike our new X-perience series, which focuses on sharing our engineers' experience on specifics, the X-periment series will contain ideas, contrasting opinions, and discussions on other topics, where we aim to give a broader as opposed to in-depth overview. So, without further ado, let us dive right in. Integration testing is one of those topics where opinions often clash. What should [...]
Redux creator Dan Abramov asked his massive audience of JS devs on Twitter what the most interesting things in the JS world are. I condensed the huge list of responses to the most popular ones here. It's a very interesting look into the future of JS over the next year. TLDR: Functional programming is no longer just for the hipsters. Is it time to roll out the red carpet? Here are some of the highlights in order of popularity (most popular to leas [...]
User interfaces are undoubtedly becoming more complex every day. The main reason for this is the emphasis put on front-end developers to provide a better user experience. Secondly, we are focusing much more on building complex realtime applications, rather than simple static webpages. It is no secret that this growing complexity is answered with a rapid rise of new JavaScript frameworks almost every day. Reactive programming is the new cool kid i [...]
Angular 2 and Ionic 2 are very new developer frameworks. Although not as new, the TypeScript language has been getting much attention as the recommended way to develop with Angular 2 and Ionic 2. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that turns it into a typed language. The code is written as TypeScript and then compiled into JavaScript. This is where things get weird. What happens when you want to use a JavaScript library in your TypeScript pro [...]
Using ES6 (and even far future versions like ES7!) is becoming very easy these days – just set up Babel, and you’re off to the races. If you’re only writing code for NodeJS, you might even get away without Babel, as the native ES6 support is getting very good. The workflows are easy and detailed for development, but what about testing? How do you write unit tests for ES6 code? How do you even configure the testing tools to work with the new featu [...]
Note for Windows users: While this tutorial can apply to Windows users as well, there’s a better choice for Windows that achieves this same purpose: Telerik Fiddler. It’s free and it works great. Here’s a link to relevant documentation. Imagine a silly bug that takes five minutes to fix, but it also takes one hour just to set up your local machine. In such a situation, you would be saying “Come on, I’m not raising an entire local environment for [...]
NativeScript is becoming all the rage in the mobile development community lately. I hear about it at conferences, various reputable news websites, and even in mobile development forum boards. It is becoming so popular over the competition for a few major reasons, but before I go there, let me explain what it is incase this is your first time hearing of it. Defined by the NativeScript website: NativeScript enables developers to build native apps [...]
TypeScript, as its name suggests, is a typed superset of JavaScript, which means that all JavaScript code is valid in TypeScript – making it very easy to get started. In addition, TypeScript has several language features including static typing, most ES6 syntax, and object-oriented programming constructs. It is a compiled language, which means you’ll have to transpile it to JavaScript before it can be run, but the benefits are well worth it. Many [...]
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