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Using objects in jQuery's .css()

The JavaScript Module Pattern

An introduction to jQuery Deferreds

jQuery 1.7 Event Binding: .on() & .off()

JS WTF: 5 < 4 < 3

A jQuery Pub Sub Implementation

Testing with QUnit: Part 1

Scope and this in JavaScript

Grunt, a JS Command Line Tool

QUnit, PhantomJS and Mockjax

Exploring Backbone: Part 1

Beginning Node.js

A jQuery Plugin with Grunt & QUnit

Node.js: A Todo App with Express

A jQuery Plugin in CoffeeScript

A Pub Sub implementation in CoffeeScript

A JS Playground Update

Your own jQuery Deferreds

Introduction to JavaScript Objects

Conditional Loading with YepNope

Exploring Backbone.js - Part 2

Your First Polyfill

Node & Express Todo App: Redis

Package Management with Jam JS

Watch me Code Screencasts

A Site Update

Come and watch me speak

Introduction to RequireJS

Speaking at WDC 2012

Writing a Command Line Node Tool

nodefetch, a command line download tool

Essential JavaScript Script Loaders

Cross Browser Testing with bunyip

Hosting a Node app on Heroku

Five JavaScript Testing Libraries

Making your library AMD compliant

A New JS Playground Update

JavaScript MV* Frameworks

The new keyword in JavaScript

JS Command Line Tooling

2012 in Review

Node.js workshops, March, London

Talking RequireJS at TakeOff Conf

ECMAScript 5 Array Methods

Exploring Backbone.js - Part 3

The .net Awards

Custom jQuery Builds with Grunt

jQuery CSS Hooks

Moving to Jekyll

Refactoring DOM Heavy JS

Meet pulldown

More Refactoring

The Firefox OS Hello World

Announcing 'Confident jQuery'

A new look

Mocking API Requests in Node tests

Dependency Management with Browserify

Using Browserify with npm modules

JavaScript Getters and Setters

2013 in Review

An introduction to Gulp

Pub Sub with Event Emitter

Embracing Command Line Tooling with Backbone Applications

Real Life ES6 - Arrow Functions

Using ES6 Modules Today

Unit testing ExpressJS route functions

The Refactoring Tales book

An introduction to ES6 classes.

Upcoming JavaScript Workshops

Slides from "An introduction to ES6"

ES6 Destructuring

JavaScript Modules and Dependencies with jspm

Embracing Promises in JavaScript

Writing Command Line Tools with Node

Predictions on JavaScript in the next 12 months

Array methods in ECMAScript 6

The state of front end tooling

Authoring JavaScript modules with ES6

Elm for JavaScript Developers

Better bundles with Rollup

JavaScript Releases: ES2016 and Beyond

Misconceptions of Tooling in JavaScript

ReactJS workshops in London

Using ReactJS without Webpack

Better data fetching with RemoteDataJS

Screencast: Creating a React and Webpack Project

Setting up CSS Modules with React and Webpack

Using the HTML Webpack Plugin for generating HTML files

Migrating to Webpack 2

Authoring and publishing JavaScript modules with Flow

How to contribute to open source with Webpack

Loading data from APIs in React

Setting up Vim for modern JavaScript Development

Context in ReactJS Applications

Dealing with APIs in React with ReactRemoteData

Functional Stateless Components in React

Building Langton's Ant in Elm

Getting started with TypeScript and React

Refactoring React with Tests

Extracting Logic from React Components

Migrating complex JavaScript applications

An introduction to styled-components with Glen Maddern

Moving away from Vim for front-end development

Adding URL support to an Elm app with elm-lang/navigation

An introduction to testing React components with Enzyme 3

Using React Fragments for the first time

Moving the JS Playground from GitHub Pages to Netlify

Testing React with Enzyme and Jest: a new video course

Preferring code over comments

Habits of Successful React components

Getting started with JSON Decoding in Elm

Enabling VSCode's "Go to Definition" for JSX imports

Introducing VSCode GoToFile

Reading and updating query params with URLSearchParams

React in Five: a new video course to level up your React

Testing React with Kent C. Dodds

Black Friday sale on my React video courses

Adventures with ReasonML

Configuring ESLint on a TypeScript project

Refactoring a component to use React hooks

The perfect unit test

Hiding implementation details with React hooks

Making unit tests fail when PropTypes error

Converting a JS library to TypeScript: Part 1

Things I was wrong about when I started programming

Converting a JS library to TypeScript: Part 2

Avoiding recursive useEffect hooks in React

Converting a JS library to TypeScript: Part 3

Structuring React applications

Saving manual work with babel-plugin-macros

Making impossible states impossible: data structures in React

Getting started with GraphQL: what client to use?

A free video series on building web apps with Elm

Avoiding bugs with data structures: using Sets in JavaScript

Using Windows 10 and WSL for frontend web development

Frontend tech choices I'm making in 2020

Moving domain names to jackfranklin dot co dot uk

Letting tools make choices

The three developers

Using ftplugin to tidy my Vim configuration

Learning keyboard shortcuts with Post-it notes

Refactoring to remove passthrough variables

Writing tests for bad JavaScript code

Refactoring JavaScript with tests

Learning from mistakes

VSCode Productivity: The Magit plugin

Keeping Code Simple

VSCode Productivity: The rewrap plugin

How code gets bad

Better code reviews

Testing event listeners in JavaScript

Writing good comments: the why, not the how

Software Development on Windows 10 with WSL2

Remapping Keys on Windows 10 with Power Toys

VSCode Productivity: Navigating files with Breadcrumbs

Comparing Svelte and React

Working in small chunks

Why you should check-in your node dependencies

Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform

Learning to say "I don't know"

Running command line tasks in Neovim

Things I've learned about building computers

Cracking Neovim code folding

Exhaustive branch checks with TypeScript

OnTrack devlog 1

performance.wow() 2024

TypeScript enums and falsy values

Goals for 2025

Augmented engineering: learnings of an AI skeptic