John Kazer articles - 16 total
Async functionality - currying that makes sense
There are a range of ways in JavaScript to handle or express delayed activity: Callbacks (pass a...
NPM - too much of a good thing?
(cover pic unsplash) A thought occurred to me today when I was considering an article by Eric Normand...
Refactoring a horrible function - thought processes
How to think differently about your code, via an example of how I rescued myself from a horrible func...
Is web security broken?
Or just our approach to it? Why does this subject, so fundamental, seem so hard? The internet, inc...
Functional programming is conversational, OOP is abstract art
Functional, OOP and procedural styles are all valid, just different - and in fact complementary. To...
Don't be confused by closures, currying etc
If you are worrying about the how and the detail, just relax. Focus on the logical operations. The f...
DEV's UI decision-making - A question...
Hi Ben Halpern A Canadian software develope...
Why functional programming? Stay in control
As I delve a bit more into the experience of converting myself into a semi-literate functional progra...
Functional programming is great, but not for the reasons everyone keeps telling you
There is no necessarily fundamental reason why functional programming is better than a procedural or...
Revist the waterfall process but this time with maths
(Cover image by John Westrock on Unsplash) "Design, maths & framework". The "you really should...
Use maths not process for reliable web apps
A combination of functional front-end JavaScript and state machines leads to unit and business logic...
Hyperapp with Pug templates
I recently completed an excellent course by James Moore on the basics of functional JavaScript for we...
Finally, progress learning functional programming
Shouting "Yes!" when code works the first time...
How I Became Functional
Or - I have commitment issues! A story of starting out in web dev and of avoiding making decisions about frameworks
Reusable code (tick), backwards compatibility (fail)
In the old days, reuse was hard but we never broke interface backwards compatibility...
In defence of vanilla JavaScript
Why using vanilla JavaScript over front-end frameworks is still essential