I really like node streams. They’re everywhere in node, and they can be really efficient because you’re only dealing with small chunks of data at a time. You can use streams to read/write files, transform data, etc. The
Promises are coming in ES6. Think of a Promise as an object that represents a value that will be given to you eventually. You call your function and it returns a Promise, and you execute the .then method on the Promise,
I’ve never been a big fan of Promises for async code. That’s not a point against Promises as a concept per se; it’s more an issue of environment. Very few environments/libraries/frameworks using JavaScript use Promises;
One trait that separates great developers from average developers is the ability to figure out how to learn what they don’t know. Often this means taking basic building blocks and creating layers of abstraction to more e
Sometimes MVC is too controlling.
I have a fun (to me at least, many would disagree) job as a full stack JavaScript developer. It’s a great time to be one, given how popular the web has gotten. Browsers are improving their JavaScript engines all the time
This is my first post on hexo. I like it so far.