A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...

As of ES2015, new ECMAScript standard library APIs have used a protocol-based design, enabled by the introduction of Symbols. Symbols are ECMAScript values which have identity and may be used as ...

Is WebAssembly (Wasm) really ready for production usage in Web applications, even though that usage requires integration with a Web page and the APIs used to manipulate it, such as the DOM?

Over three decades of development, JavaScript has grown faster, sleeker, more capable, and much more complex. That’s good and bad. It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play.

TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming language that adds features that are important for enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning that the ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. To review: JavaScript is what makes static web pages “dynamic.” Without it, the ...

TypeScript is growing in popularity as the programming language of choice for both front-end and back-end developers. With TypeScript, developers can fully wield the power of the principles and ...

What is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format used to exchange data between web clients and web servers. The ...

(copied from https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-compiler, included in the GitHub wiki to permit community editing) The Closure Compiler can ...

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