Thanks to some thoughtful reader feedback, I’ve realized that my piece a couple of weeks ago about learning code “the hard way” is missing something important: why JavaScript doesn’t fit among “hard ...

There is a well known story about a scientist who gave a talk about the Earth and its place in the solar system. At the end of the talk, a woman refuted him with "That's rubbish; the Earth is really ...

So I’ve decided to go ahead and write a book about JavaScript. It’s called The JavaScript Way and is available through Leanpub and GitHub (more on that later). It’s true there are tons of learning ...

A bit of history To understand what Node.js (or Node for short) is, we have to travel back in time to the 2000's. As JavaScript was becoming increasingly important for improving the user experience on ...

Although string values are primitive JavaScript types, some properties and methods may be applied to them just as if they were objects. The length property returns the number of characters of the ...