JavaScript has built-in, primitive types. The variables that you create have types, whether you know it or not. Understanding these primitive types and what’s going on behind the scenes will help you understand how to better write your applications. (more…)

What it can't do? Well, I was talking about jQuery. It is a tremendous library. CSS wasn't able to create complex animations at some point, and then jQuery appeared to help it out. jQuery created a wrapper method, called animate(). It can apply custom ani... (more…)

It’s fascinating to consider what makes one framework or library more popular than another. While I don’t have a definitive answer to that question, I do have a bit of data that provides a snapshot of JavaScript framework usage over the past year. It’s wo... (more…)

This is post # 44 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and… (more…)

The open-source JavaScript foundation highlights updates across multiple projects as development moves forward. (more…)