Zombies are fun. ES2015 is fun. You know what’s even more fun? ES2015 and zombies together! In this post, I’ll show you how I used ES2015 generators to make an infinite zombie horde. [more] Getting Started This sample should work fine in NodeJS 8+. Go grab it if you don’t have it already! Let’s make…
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Practical Promises in JavaScript – Order Matters
Welcome to another entry in my Practical Promises series! I know I said the next post would be the last, and we would talk about async/await, but I changed my mind! Instead, today, we’ll revisit the fundamentals to show just how important it is to call things in the right order. [more] If you are…
Practical Promises in JavaScript – Leveraging Promise Chaining to Achieve Encapsulation
Welcome to part 5 of my Practical Promises series! Today, we’re going to use what we’ve learned to build a better client-side API for a web API. [more] If you are just joining us, here is what you missed: In part 1, we talked about what promises are and what they can be used for….
Practical Promises in JavaScript – Returning New Promises with Chaining Promises
Welcome to part 4 of my Practical Promises series! In part 1, we talked about what promises are and what they can be used for. In part 2, we started looking at how we can create promises. Then in part 3, we saw how each call to then actually makes a new promise, and that…
Practical Promises in JavaScript – The Basics of Promise Chaining
Welcome to part 3 of my Practical Promises series! In part 1, we talked about what promises are and what they can be used for. In part 2, we started looking at how we can create promises. Today, we’re going to look at how promises can be chained together. [more] What Happens If… We’ve seen…
Practical Promises in JavaScript – What are they, and how do I use them?
JavaScript promises are a concept that I see developers, both pros and novices, struggle with on a regular basis. For those of us that come from a synchronous-programming background, using them effectively and understanding what’s happening can be challenging, especially if you don’t have a good grasp on all the ways that promises can be…
Turn an Array into Proper-English with an AngularJS Filter
I needed a way to display a nicely-readable list of strings for an app I’m working on. And by that, I mean that I wanted to display, "Mary, John, and Mark" instead of "Mary, John, Mark". A simple ngRepeat would have been too complex for this, so, filters to the rescue! [more] Let’s back up…
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