This is a debugging story of how to determine what event listener is calling event.preventDefault() or event.stopPropagation() or some other completely random thing which is not allowing your intended action. (more…)
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I may be one of the last people you would expect to write an essay criticizing JavaScript, but here we are.
Two of my primary areas of… (more…)
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At Wootric we've been fans of Typescript for some time. Anders Hejlsberg, the lead architect of TypeScript has a legendary record of working on amazing languages such as Turbo Pascal and C#. A long term dream of the team was to move our JavaScript snippet... (more…)
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I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned... (more…)
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