​​Determining what this is is actually rather simple. The overarching rule is that this is determined at the time a function is invoked by inspecting where it’s called, its call site. It follows these rules, in order of precedence.

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​​To explain what new does, let’s start with just a normal function, called without new. We want to write a function that will create “person” objects. It’ll give these objects name and age properties based on parameters that it takes in.

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​​I think it’s great that the JavaScript community is paying attention to the problems caused by the use of classes and inheritance, but I’m worried that the beginners are confused as classes are both “bad” and were just added to the language. Even more confusingly, some libraries, notably React, use ES6 classes all over its documentation. Is React intentionally following “bad practices”?

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🔘 #React

​​Custom hooks leverage the power of React hooks to add additional functionality to our React apps. Since the release of the React Hooks, there has been an explosive growth of custom hooks, thousands of React devs all over the world have churned out hundreds of custom hooks that simplify most of the arduous and boring tasks we do in React projects.

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​​You spend a significant amount of time each day in your code editor, invest in yourself.

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🔘 #TextEditor #VScode

​​An attempt to build a font database with opentype.js

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​​Have you noticed how the same cliche questions always get asked at job interviews — over and over again?

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​​Acey is a Global State Manager for React Apps based on classes.

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​​Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2⁄3 of my life, I’ve been building things on the web. I can barely remember a time in my life where I didn’t know HTML, which is kind of weird when you think about it.

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🔘 #Career

​​JavaScript has been evolving very rapidly in recent years. Especially after the release of ES6 in 2015, things have been great. A lot of new features were being proposed to be included in the ES2020 version.

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​​Visual Studio by Microsoft is one of the top integrated development environments (IDEs). It enables developers to integrate their existing development suite with other applications, adding a lot of features in the process to boost your productivity. As a part of Microsoft’s efforts to open source their code, Visual Studio is available as free and open-source software.

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#IDE

​​This is the typical structure I use for my medium-sized Node backends. For small backends, I'd probably just put everything in one file and I might not bother with build tooling.

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#Node

​​Okay, now for some reason, you’ve finally chosen Chrome as the browser you’re developing for. Then you open Developer Tools and start debugging your code...

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#Chrome

​​Typical mistakes that developers sometimes make when working with functional components and hooks in React component.

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#React

​​Deno v1.0.0 is scheduled for release on May 13. Here are a few interesting facts that may play a role in determining that.

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#Deno

​​Don’t get me wrong, I like Firebase — but with everything dev related, there’s always a good and bad side, with a pinch of annoying that no one really wants to talk about.

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#Firebase

​​JavaScript is now a very popular programming language, based on which a large number of libraries and frameworks have been derived. But no matter how the upper ecosystem evolves, it can’t do without vanilla JavaScript. Here I’ve selected 4 JavaScript interview questions to test a programmer’s skill of vanilla JavaScript.

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​​Understanding Data Structures is helpful in all aspects of programming, you don’t need to have a particular use case where you’ll use a Tree or a Graph to have to consider learning about them. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever implemented a proper Tree structure in my 15 years of software development, however, understanding how they work has helped me several times in the past.

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#JavaScript