All Articles – Page 10

Here are all the articles on Benevolent Bytes, so far there's 78 of them. I hope you gain something useful from the topics I cover and you use these articles, videos and code snippets to learn new skills to succeed in your web development journey.

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Language Features I Wish JavaScript Had

The wonders of guard and pattern matching

Elixir is a dynamic functional language with a couple of things I really enjoy using, pattern matching and guards are the coolest things I’ve seen.

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Hitting the ground running with Elixir

First impressions of Elixir as a JS developer

Elixir is a functional programming language which runs on the Erlang VM, it’s touted as being “designed for building scalable and maintainable applications” and if you squint, it has a very Ruby-esque syntax on the surface.

Why Prettier will make you a more productive programmer

Why I switched from ESLint to Prettier for formatting JS

Linting is a great productivity tool, tools such as ESLint can find potential errors and help foster a consistent style across teams.

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The Wonders of Dangerous CSS

Future CSS for the now

Playing around with some of CSS most fun but not very well supported features.

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Context Menus on the Web

How does one of the most ubiquitous actions on desktop translate to the web? See why context menus are so difficult to achieve and where browser support sits.

Do I need to worry about Internet Explorer in 2017?

Is Internet Explorer still relevant? Do I need to support it and how do I support IE?