19 posts found for the tag beginner

Exploring HTML <dialog> element with examples

Posted on November 24, 2020

The dialog(widely known as a modal dialog) is a popup box on a web page. A dialog is also called a modal dialog when it obscures the rest of the page content with an overlay. The purpose of a modal dialog is when it displays, the user should not be ...

Why do you need to do Side Projects as A Developer?

Posted on November 18, 2020

The Side Project Most of us as Software Developers have something called the main job that we do to earn money, run the family, take care of our needs. If you are a student, your main job maybe towards getting your academic score high, higher study, ...

JavaScript undefined and null: Let's talk about it one last time!

Posted on November 6, 2020

In JavaScript, undefined and null are very different from each other. However, there are only a few similarities that may confuse a beginner to the language. This article aims to explain the similarities, differences, and usages with examples. Hope y...

How to use JavaScript scheduling methods with React hooks

Posted on November 3, 2020

At times, you may want to execute a function at a certain time later or at a specified interval. This phenomenon is called, scheduling a function call. JavaScript provides two methods for it, setInterval setTimeout Using these scheduling methods w...

Why do you need to know about Array-like Objects?

Posted on October 28, 2020

Have you ever encountered an error like this while dealing with JavaScript Arrays? Uncaught TypeError: children.forEach is not a function forEach is surely a function of an Array then why do we get an error like the above? There are a few possibili...

How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API?

Posted on October 26, 2020

The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer to send a small amount of data such as, analytics or tracking information, debugging, or di...

I made a photo gallery with CSS animation. Here’s what I learned.

Posted on October 7, 2020

The vanilla CSS(without any external JavaScript and CSS libraries) allows animation of HTML elements using CSS properties. This is very powerful and quite simple to learn and use. As a beginner at CSS animation, I have learned some cool things and m...

5 useful tips about the JavaScript array sort method

Posted on October 2, 2020

JavaScript arrays are an ordered collection that can hold data of any type. Arrays are created with square brackets [...] and allow duplicate elements. In JavaScript, we can sort the elements of an array with the built-in method called, sort(). In th...

Everything you need to know about JavaScript Set

Posted on September 24, 2020

JavaScript objects and arrays are the most used data structures act as collections of data. Until ES6 there were limited options with developers. But with ES6 we have got two new flexible and easy to use data structures, Map and Set . In this article...

How to use JavaScript Collection with Map

Posted on September 21, 2020

Introduction Unlike many other programming languages, JavaScript's way of handling data collection is mostly with objects and arrays(don't forget, technically array is also a type of object in JavaScript). A majority of the developers rely on these h...

Explain Me Like I am Five: What are ES6 Symbols?

Posted on September 9, 2020

Introduction Symbol is a primitive type(not an object) included in the ECMAScript 2015(aka, ES6). We are already familiar with the existing primitive types like, Number, String and, Boolean. Like these primitive types, Symbols are also created via a ...

10 useful HTML5 features, you may not be using

Posted on August 14, 2020

HTML5 is not a new thing. We have been using several features of it since the initial release(January 2008). As part of #100DaysOfCode initiative, I have taken a close look at the HTML5 feature list again. See what I found? I haven't really used a bu...

JavaScript: Equality comparison with ==, === and Object.is

Posted on August 11, 2020

#100DaysOfCode is a great engagement to refresh some of the concepts that are basic, but extremely important. Today, I spent time on refreshing my memory on JavaScript's equality operators and methods. Thought, why not to write about it? Traditional...

10 useful NPM packages you should be aware of (2020 edition)

Posted on August 6, 2020

The great thing about living in this era as a web developer is, you have got plenty of supports from developer communities around. One of them is, Node Package Manager(from now, npm). If you are into any kind of(client-side, server-side, full-stack ...

Understanding Dynamic imports, Lazy and Suspense using React Hooks

Posted on August 4, 2020

An exciting journey It has been an exciting journey so far with the #2articles1week challenge from HashNode. So much of learning from reading the great articles coming out of it. I believe, all the writers taking part in it, are the Real Winners. I a...

My Favorite JavaScript Tips and Tricks

Posted on July 28, 2020

Motivation Most of the programming languages are open enough to allow programmers to do things multiple ways for a similar outcome. JavaScript is in no way different. With JavaScript, we often find multiple ways of doing things for a similar outcome,...

Understanding JavaScript Closure with example

Posted on July 25, 2020

Joy of getting to the end All's well that ends well. Welcome to the last post of the series JavaScript: Cracking the Nuts. I want to thank you all for liking the series so far. There is another reason why this article is special to me. This is my 5...

Where to begin? Some practical tips from a beginner

Posted on July 20, 2020

The Expert in anything was once a Beginner. Background Recently I had a chance to respond to the HashNode discussion thread asking, Where to begin? The question and my response to it were around a specific context but, after thinking more about it,...

JavaScript Scope Fundamentals with Tom and Jerry

Posted on July 17, 2020

Introduction Welcome to another post of the series, JavaScript: Cracking the Nuts. This series is all about visiting JavaScript fundamental concepts with more significant details. In this article, I am going to explain another important concept calle...