More games and challenges
In: javascript
16 Dec 2018
I recently discovered some new challenges sites that are worth investigating if you are looking for something to test your problem-solving skills.
JSON comments and JSON5
In: tools
03 Dec 2018
JSON is data-interchange format, meant to be easy to read for humans, and easy to parse by computers. The format is commonly used for config files, such as package.json, so the lack of comments in the specification is often seen as a limitation.
JavaScript's Number type and TC39 proposals
In: javascript
07 Nov 2018
The tc39/proposals repository tracks current stage 1 or higher proposed changes to the ECMAScript specification. I’ve picked out 5 proposals would affect numerics which are worth monitoring to see how they develop.
JavaScript Number type
In: javascript
27 Oct 2018
Number is one of the six primitive data types in JavaScript, unlike in other languages where numbers can be represented in multiple types such as integers, float, double etc. JavaScript only has the one numeric data type (at the moment).
Publishing npm packages
In: npm
19 Aug 2018
The npm repository holds over 700,000 packages, and adding your own public package is an easy task.