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on Aug. 6, 2020
This week I presented a talk “Building a Promise From Scratch” for the awesome TorontoJS user group. This was all done online, and you can watch the recording here or on YouTube.
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on May. 28, 2020
In your build tools, you may have noticed that you have an ECMAScript 3 target, and 5 and up, but never a 4. Why is that? I thought it would be fun to dive into ECMAScript 4 a bit and see what we didn’t get. A brief history According to Wikipedia, the first draft of ECMAScript 4 was dated February…
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on Apr. 15, 2020
I just realized this is the third time I’m writing async middleware invoker, I thought I would share the generic pattern for the benefit of others. I’m not sure if this is interesting enough for a NPM package, so I’ll leave it here for inspiration. The specific middleware pattern I am implementing,…
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on Mar. 19, 2020
Between tasks I spend a fair time on Stack Overflow, which is (truth be told) a love/hate relationship. There’s a few recurring questions that I feel deserve a longer explanation. Last time, I wrote about how to use MySQL in Node.js, but today I wanted to write about the fetch no-cors setting. What…
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on Mar. 17, 2020
Curveball is the freshest new microframework for Typescript. Since the last big announcement, there’s been a number new curveball users, and also a few framework changes. I thought it would be nice to list some of the things we’ve been working on this month. Starter template Probably the most signi…
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on Feb. 27, 2020
Since mid-2018 we’ve been working on a new micro-framework, written in typescript. The framework competes with Express, and takes heavy inspiration from Koa. It’s called Curveball. If you only ever worked with Express, I feel that for most people this project will feel like a drastic step up. Expre…