Most tutorials about setting up an Express web server in Node also have you add a templating engine and countless middleware packages. In this post, I am going to show you how to create a server-rendered website using Express and, well, plain JavaScript! #1 First Steps This post picks up »
Testing your code is important. People disagree about how important it is, but we can all agree that writing at least some tests is a good practice. In this post, I will show you how to write and run tests on your code using Mocha. For this post, we will »
This is an extremely exciting time to be a JavaScript developer. The language is growing and changing in very positive ways. But, unfortunately, many of the best features of modern JavaScript are not natively available in Node or the browsers. I, along with others, say that it is absolutely essential »
I've written previously about some of my favorite features of ES2015 (formerly known as ES6). If you have read those, you probably know that I really like string interpolation, block-scoped variables, and context-preserving arrow functions. But one feature which I have not used until now is object and array destructuring. »