Redis is a powerful tool for caching data and having it available in memory. Redis requires RAM to use, and every piece of data you use in Redis is loaded into the RAM. That means it can be...

I've already covered in another article the Javascript every method. It's useful for when checking if every element matches a certain criteria. The some method differs in that it checks if o...

There are many use cases where knowing if an array is a subset of another can be quite useful - and although usually immediately obvious to the human eye, it can be difficult to evaluate in...

Sometimes with arrays, we want to test every element for a certain condition. While individual conditions can be tested easily with an if statement, it becomes a little trickier with multipl...

Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) are used all over the place in software development for everything from identifying object elements to DOM elements on a web page. They are unique, 128...

The concat method on arrays is used to take two arrays and concatenate them into one. It takes as many arrays as you like - so you can concatenate many arrays at once: Array.concat(value1, v...

Immediately invoked function expressions, or IIFE, are functions which are run as soon as you define the function. You may also see people refer to them as anonymous functions. They give us...

There are quite a few ways in Javascript to loop through an array of items or any other iterable item in Javascript. You may have seen them: arr.forEach() for(let item of arr) for(let...

One of the most frequent operations we perform on an array is removing the last element. There are a few different ways to do this - but one of the most common is to use the pop() method. Co...

In Javascript it's usually considered best practice to work with absolute numbers, as number is a defined type. However, when expressing these numbers in user interfaces, it's more likely we...

Git branches are an easy way to manage our code, and separate our copies of our code when we want to work on specific features. We can then merge our code back into our main branch, or even...

Git provides a powerful tool by letting us create branches. When our branch is done, we'll often want to merge it back into our main or master branch - or perhaps even merge it into another...

Merge conflicts are often a part of life for working on complex development projects. In this guide we'll look at how you can deal with them, and when they will occur. When do merge conflict...

In my previous guide on getting started with git, I briefly covered how git branches work. You can create new branches using the git branch command, for example. In this guide, we'll go in d...

Shallow copy and deep copy are terms thrown around in Javascript that can be confusing if you have never heard them before. It is quite common to hear that array methods like slice or filter...

CSS transforms are a useful way to translate, rotate, and create 3d objects in CSS. I covered previously how CSS transforms work here, and I also created a 3d Minecraft chicken to show how y...

Proxies are objects in Javascript which allows you to make a proxy of an object, while also defining custom behaviour for standard object operations like get, set and has. What that means is...

Git can be daunting to understand since it is completely driven from the terminal, but at its core it's just version management software. It lets us maintain versions of code, which other pe...

Did you know that Javascript does not class a selection of multiple elements as an array? Instead, it is something called a NodeList. A node list is essentially a list of elements. To genera...

If you've ever worked in vanilla Javascript, you might be familiar with adding event listeners to elements using the following formula: let element = document.querySelector('#button'); elem...

The filter method in Javascript creates a shallow copy of an array, filtering it based on a number of conditions. It accepts a callback function. The array which filter produces will usually...

The Javascript reduce method is a recursive way to perform a computation based on every element in array, while also taking into consideration the previous element in the array. It accepts a...

The slice method on arrays returns a shallow copy of a part of an array. It takes two numbers, a start, and an end. Every array has a slice method. Here is a quick example: let myArray = [ '...

If you're new to web development, or just Javascript development, you may find yourself wondering what is the difference between TypeScript and Javascript?. In this guide I'll explain exactl...

So you have a Javascript array, and you want to get the last element. Take this example, for instance: let myArray = [ '🔩', '⚡️', '🔑', '🖇' ] This array has 4 items - and as you might kno...

Javascript objects consist of key value pairs and are one of the most common data structures in Javascript. To update all values in an object, the easiest way is to: Use Object.keys to get...

When you're working with Javascript, you're likely to have run into a pretty common problem: if your Javascript appears before your HTML, then trying to do things like attach events to your...

In a previous article, I covered Javascript Maps - a data type very similar to objects, but with some key differences. Javascript has other data types too, and one you may not know much abou...

When we create components in React, normally they exist within the component tree. This is mostly fine, but sometimes we want certain parts of a component to appear outside the component tre...

When developing projects and products in Node.JS, it becomes essential to set the Node.JS version being used on your computer. nvm is a really useful tool for changing your Node.JS version o...