JavaScript is often considered a “multi-paradigm” language. Its current features lend itself to writing both object-oriented and functional code. Lately an interest in writing…
Author Archives: James McGeachie
Future JS: The Pattern Matching Proposal
As developers, we spend every day writing control flow. Sometimes, we end up with long, nasty conditions that we wish we could’ve expressed in…
Demystifying ‘this’
The JavaScript language has many quirks that can confuse both junior and experienced developers alike. One of these is the unintuitive behavior of the…
Building Multiple Apps from One React Native Project
Sales and marketing is a tricky business. One regional sales team can have one idea of what it takes for a product to succeed…
Staying Safe from Null in JavaScript
Intro Run-time exceptions are bad news. They are regularly responsible for broken features and application crashes. This causes user frustration, which turns them away…
Simple Cross-Platform Persistence in React Native
At some point, most applications require data persistence. You can do this by saving to a database on a remote server. However, sometimes you…
An Introduction to NativeScript
Native application development is costly for business. There are currently 2 major platforms – Android and iOS, that dominate the mobile market. If an…
Angular 4: Enhancing your Templates With ‘else’ & ‘as’
Now that the Angular team has established Semantic Versioning going forward, major version numbers will only indicate some breaking changes, not full rewrites of…
Angular 2: Conditional Validation with Reactive Forms
Forms are ubiquitous. Wherever a user has to enter multiple pieces of information to be submitted and processed, a form is generally how it’s…
Angular 2: The Difference Between Components and Directives
One of the first things Angular 2 developers will learn is the new syntax for creating a Component using a class with the @Component…