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Destructure First And Last Element Of Array

Extracting the first and last items in a JavaScript array should be easier.

Modern Web Notes

Modern Web Variety Show 2017-01-24 by Tracy Lee (twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/235966025/]) Moe Long - Keynote JavaScript testing sucks. Mocha and Jasmine are okay-ish. Dan Wilson - Building Native With Angular NativeScript [https://www.nativescript.org/] and npm install nativescript Write

Triangle.js Notes - React With Typescript

React With Typescript 2016-11-16 with Doug Miller [http://www.douglasallenmiller.com/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-JavaScript/events/235486369/]) (slides [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12MI2CzetTwN5bx-Tq2t5UVUZCiug8OpFJQvUAJT3kpg] ) Static Typing Options For JavaScript * TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] - Microsoft * flow [https://flowtype.org/] - Facebook Advantages And Disadvantages pros * better

Triangle Modern Web - Variety Show

Modern Web [http://www.modern-web.org/] Variety Show 2016-10-24 by Tracy Lee [https://www.thisdotmedia.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/234226919/]) (Twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) The inaugural meeting in the Triangle featured free food and several excellent speakers. MetLife [https://www.metlife.com/] hosted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon

Thought On React And Redux

Note: This post is in response to a client asking why a single state store is preferable to a more object-oriented approach with multiple objects, each managing its own state. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First, a caveat: I don't have much hands-on experience with React, and I've never used

Thoughts On Setting Up A Greenfield Node Project

Basic Setup The choice is between a "traditional" server-side rendering setup or and API server with client-side rendering. I'm aware of full-stack frameworks like Meteor [https://www.meteor.com/], but that is complete overkill, at least for my current project. I'm looking for something

JavaScript Prototype Functions

AKA "instance methods"! Constructor functions (any function you call with new) in JavaScript have a prototype property, which you can decorate with functions and other arbitrary values. When instantiating an object, these functions become instance methods. When calling a "method" (for instance foo.bar()), JavaScript will

npm And Global Packages

Using a Node module that provides an CLI presents some challenges, especially to newcomers. Below is a discussion of some approaches and some pros/cons. Global Only Just install globally and don't worry about local installs. It will be easy to run the commands (no prefixes!), but you&

Functions Versus Methods

When I first started programming, I remember encountering functions and methods. I was familiar with functions from high school algebra, but I had no idea what a method was. They looked similar to functions, and online comments indicated they were essentially interchangeable. When you are getting started, you can think

Triangle.rb Notes - React

These notes where originally started at the Stacked meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Stacked/events/221981094/], but never published due to being incomplete. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- React [https://facebook.github.io/react/] And Flux [https://facebook.github.io/flux/] 2015-05-12 by Nate Hunzaker [http://natehunzaker.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/

Triangle Node - Introduction To Hapi

Intro To Hapi [http://hapijs.com/] 2014-03-18 by Ben Wheeler and Brian Marks [https://twitter.com/brianpmarks] ( Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/triangle-nodejs/events/169773332/]) (speaker notes [https://node.trinket.io/intro-to-the-hapi-framework/triangle-node-js]) What * alternative to express * originally built for mobile api Not Express * configuration over code * explicit methods over