Focused critiques of recurring programming and project-maintenance habits with explanations of their costs and more dependable alternatives.
Have you ever spent more than a few seconds staring at the same line of code? How often did you find conditionals that were tricky to parse? In this article, we discuss how confusing conditionals manifest in our code. Along the way, we also explore different refactoring techniques for improving the readability of conditional control flows.
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As we accustom ourselves with the magical world of promises and asynchronous functions, JavaScript has truly become more than _just_ a "single-threaded language". But nevertheless, there is a great responsibility that comes with these modern features. In this article, I shed light on an often overlooked code smell of asynchronous operations: nested promises.
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Changelogs, release notes, and patch notes all have a common objective: to inform readers of recent changes. However, it is unfortunate to know that some still consider the humble changelog as an "optional" stage in the development cycle. In this article, by citing various software changelogs as examples, I discuss how good, clear, and informative changelogs (1) improve overall user experience and (2) establish brand identity and "hype".
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Array methods are godsends to the JavaScript language. They have made iterating over arrays simpler and more concise than ever (compared to their `for` loop counterparts). However, "overchaining" them can impact performance if we're not careful.
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Whenever we decide to use .env files to hide our precious API keys and passwords, we are always reminded to never commit the .env file. Despite that, running a quick search on GitHub reveals that there are still a number of people who didn't get the memo.
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