ECMAScript 6 introduced some interesting new stuff. We have already covered let and const, previously. I figured that it is time to cover arrow functions, now. See the Pen Arrow Functions – Part 1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. As you can see in the above example, at the very least, this new syntax …
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This is going to be a relatively short post. We have been doing a lot of [x] vs [y] vs [z] posts lately and this one is no different. Today, I figured that we would look at Prototype.call() vs Prototype.apply(). Both apply() and call() are used to invoke functions. The difference is that call uses …
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Back in January, we looked at how to use Vue and Axios to read from the JSON API for this blog. I figured that it is about time to look at how to do the same thing with XML. See the Pen Parse XML in JavaScript – Part 1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. …
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You don’t necessarily need to write server-side code for everything. Sometime there is a much easier solution. Did you know that you can use Google Sheets as an API endpoint? Let’s take a look at a quick example. For a few years now, I have been archiving my tweets as Google Sheets documents. There is …
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Ever since Apple bought and shut down Dark Sky, I have been struggling to figure out what to replace it with. I figured that this would be a good excuse to play with some weather APIs. I have done this once before but that was with Rivets and YQL (neither of which I can necessarily …
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This is going to be a pretty quick post. I was playing with an MDN Tutorial on WebRTC and started wondering what I could do with it. Here’s how the basic functionality works: See the Pen JavaScript Photo Booth – Part 1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. So, I was thinking about the post …
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So, you want to protect an object that you created in JavaScript? With Object.seal() and Object.freeze(), you have two solid options that do slightly different things. While Object.seal() prevents new properties from being added to the object and marks all existing properties as non-configurable, it still lets you change the values of properties. Object.freeze() on …
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Previously, we looked at ways to display tabular data on a webpage. Let’s pick up where we left off, but with more data. The last time, the data was hard-coded into an array. This time, let’s use Axios to load some fake data from JSONPlaceholder. See the Pen Table Pagination – Example 1 by Joe …
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The next post in our X vs Y vs Z series is var vs let vs const. I’ve wanted to cover this for a little while. Let and const were added to JavaScript with ECMAScript 6. Var has been around a bit longer. Var is used to declare a function-scoped or globally-scoped variable. Var declarations …
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So, you need to show tabular data on a webpage and make it as digestible as possible? For demo purposes, we are going to look at the top 10 most populous municipalities in Wisconsin. See the Pen Table Zebra Striping – Example 1 by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. In the above example, we just …
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