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- Nov 07 2018
Announcing Test262 Report
Today we’re launching Test262 Report to provide JavaScript developers with up-to-date information on the state of new and existing language features across implementations. Test262 Report is based on daily runs of Test262, the ECMA-262 (“ECMAScript” or “JavaScript”) test suite, in nightly builds of JavaScript engines, and visualizes at-a-glance status of feature implementation progress. Taking a […]
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- testing,
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- Sep 14 2017
Ergonomic Testing with Webpack, Part One, File Resolving
This is part one in a series on the intersection of module bundlers and testing frameworks. Our focus will be webpack and jest but the techniques explored here can be reused with other tools as well. Modern websites and applications are routinely built by combining hundreds of small JavaScript modules. In order to increase the […]
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The Next Steps For TC39
It’s been more than an year since I started attending TC39 meetings, and this most recent meeting felt much like the first, as I faced a new personal challenge: I went there as the acting chair. TC39 is a group of almost 50 highly skilled professionals, each with very strong positions on the existing form […]
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- Mar 29 2016
Equality and Relational Operators: Comparing the strange relationship between null and 0
Recently I saw a tweet about the relationship between values in JavaScript saying that greater or equals means nothing. The tweet reported the following results: null >= 0 // true null > 0 // false null == 0 // false My experience with the JavaScript language makes me believe that everything has a meaning, even […]
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Looking at JavaScript with “new” eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator
To me, the JavaScript language is as beautiful and unexpectedly wondrous as a mini donkey. If I could propose a new cover for the book Beautiful JavaScript, I would choose this one: The reason I find JavaScript beautiful is that there’s something new to learn everyday. For example, recently I learned some surprising facts about […]
Continue ReadingLooking at JavaScript with “new” eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator - Sep 15 2015
Introducing the Moebio Framework
The Bocoup Data Visualization Team is excited to announce the first public release of the Moebio Framework in collaboration with Santiago Ortiz and Moebio Labs. The Moebio Framework is a JavaScript Toolkit for analyzing and visualizing data in the browser. At the core of this JavaScript framework is a set of data types and functions […]
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- javascript,
- open source
- Sep 26 2010
JavaScript: Promote JS
Over the course of the following week, I will be adding these to all of the appropriate JavaScript articles I’ve published.
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- Jun 08 2010
JS Truthiness
‘0’ && (‘0′ == false) // true We’ll just have to agree to disagree, javascript. {: .space} Update: this is what I mean by “truthy” and “falsy”: function truthy(x) { return !!x; }; function falsy(x) { return !x; };
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- Jan 25 2010
PollenJS Contributor Announcement
I’m pleased to announce the addition of Elijah Grey as a core contributor to the PollenJS project. Eli has an exceptional (albeit short) background in JavaScript development using bleeding-edge technology. Just the kind of guy we like to have around bocoup.com. A few thing that Eli and I have already begun hashing out: Modular loading […]
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