There seems to be some confusion when it comes to JavaScript modules. Some developers are unsure of how they work and why are various ways that they can be used. To clear up some of these ...

Most JavaScript developers are familiar with the npm package manager, which was originally developed by Isaac Schlueter. What many probably don’t know is that npm is also a company co-founded by ...

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A new generation of bundler, build, and dependency management tools is making JavaScript development simpler, easier, and faster. Give these seven special tools a try. It seems like every year is a ...

Several years ago, Netflix decided to refactor its main client application to JavaScript from C++. This approach promised a more consistent user interface (UI) and allowed Netflix to innovate new ...

Nowadays JavaScript has three different keywords to declare a variable — var, let and, const. Each has its own properties and particularities. Let’s start by making a simple comparison table of the ...

Microsoft shipped the beta release of TypeScript 4.7, which tackles a "very difficult feature," ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js. The difficulty arises from two different JavaScript module systems ...

Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical module in npm, a package manager for widely-used JavaScript projects. Countless projects were left in limbo ...