In this chapter, we learn how to handle tasks that take a long time to complete – think downloading a file. The mechanisms for doing that, Promises and async functions are an important foundation of...

In this chapter, we explore the popular data format JSON. And we implement shell commands via Node.js that read and write files.

In this chapter, we’ll explore the data structure Map (a class) which lets us translate (“map”) from an input value to an output value. We’ll use a Map to display text upside-down in a terminal!

This blog post provides an overview of my new series of blog posts called “Learning web development”.

In this blog post, we discuss Oracle’s trademark of the word “JavaScript”: What are the problems caused by that trademark? How can we fix those problems?

In this chapter, we learn how to create plain objects with properties. We use them to create a simple flash card app.

So far, all of our JavaScript code resided in a single file – be it an .html file or a .js file. In this chapter, we learn how to split it up into multiple files. And how to automatically test if the...

In this chapter, we run a web server on our own computer and use it to serve a web app.

In this chapter we explore two topics: A shell is like browser console, but for the operating system instead of for JavaScript. It helps us with programming by running the tools (programs) we need to...

In this chapter, we learn how to do things repeatedly in JavaScript.

In this chapter, we learn about tools for only running a piece of code if a condition is met: truth values (booleans), comparisons and if statements.

In this chapter we look at one way of storing more than one value in a variable: arrays.

This blog post provides an overview of my new series of blog posts called “Learning web development”.

In the last chapter, we worked with numbers. In this chapter, we’ll work with text and write our first applications.

This blog post provides an overview of my new series of blog posts called “Learning web development”.

In this blog post, we explore ways in which we can make regular expressions easier to use.