Between the lack of Flash on their phone and the decreasing usage on web sites, people were becoming used to a world without Flash. But this relatively quick death has masked some of the innovation that the web owes to Flash - innovation that came not just from the software itself, but from the developer community that used it.
There’s a proposal in stage 1 for the Null Propagation operator. In this article we’ll take a look at the proposal, which offers an alternative to null checks ad nauseum.
Inside Mozilla, CEO Chris Beard and his team are preparing to outmaneuver Google’s Chrome browser. The battle begins in November, with their release of Firefox 57.
Async/Await provides a way of writing synchronous looking code that actually executes asynchronously. It also provides a really clean and intuitive way for handling asynchronous errors, because it utilizes try…catch syntax, which is exactly how regular synchronous JavaScript handles errors.
Joel's journey with JavaScript started way back in 1997 with Netscape Navigator 3. Back then you couldn’t do much with it. The coolest use of JavaScript was to create mouseovers.