Toby Parent articles - 17 total
A Simple Observer in Vanilla Javascript
(Photo by Jennifer Uppendahl on Unsplash ) This one is going to be a bit involved, as I view it as...
Templating with TinyBase, Tailwind, and RippleUI
In the last section, First Steps With TinyBase, we built the data models we would need to support the...
First Steps With TinyBase
So TinyBase was one of those thing that came across my feed, and I wondered what the point was. It's...
Extending Collections
So in the last article, I wrote about how a Collection is an abstract constructor (not a constructor,...
Understanding Higher-Order Functions
Working on a few article ideas, and I'm realizing that quite a few of them are dealing with...
Are You a Collector?
In javascript, when we're thinking about "groupings of like things," we tend to think of arrays. And...
Factories and Closures, or Classes and Constructors... Does It Matter?
There is all kinds of debate about which is better, classes/constructors or factory functions using...
Fairy Tales, and the Implications of Immutability
This is a bit of an aside, less directed to a particular project and more directed to a particular...
Concerning the Separation of Concerns
Working through the lessons on online coding schools, we are often taught HTML and CSS, then basic...
Playing Around with DOM Styles
If you've been at the front-end dev thing for a while, and you've learned all you need to know about...
Decomposing Composition
Functional libraries like Ramda.js are great, and give us some very powerful, useful, simple...
Getting Funky With Filters
Some time back, I was playing around with filters. Again, the question had been asked, "can I filter...
Getters and Setters in Javascript: What's the POINT?
The Why Mentoring on FreeCodeCamp and The Odin Project, you'll often see the Thermometer...
Pre-planning Your Project
The Why I mentor at a few different online courses, and a common theme I've noticed across...
Factory Functions: All About Interfacing
In the last couple posts, we looked at: Rethinking Gameboards: looking at the CSS driving a chess...
Chess Pieces, Inheritance vs Composition
In my last post, I started discussing how this chess project has been an evolution that is allowing...
Rethinking Gameboards
The Plan This is an evolution of an idea. At first, I wanted to see if it would be...