Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

Everyone dreams of a perfect start, a good college, a high-paying job, and a clear path ahead. But for one young engineer, life seemed to throw the exact opposite at every turn. Harshil Tomar, CEO of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note, this article deals with client-side JavaScript. For a client and server-side JavaScript ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Escape the single-threaded event loop in browsers and on the server. Here's how to use worker threads and web workers for modern multithreading in JavaScript. The JavaScript language is one of the ...

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Backbone is one of the most popular JavaScript based frameworks to date. It is a simple yet powerful way to create interactive JavaScript applications with data bindings to a back-end server. Instead ...