Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in ...

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A critical security vulnerability in the popular JavaScript library expr-eval allows remote code execution. The bug, with a ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

Today at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference, the company announced some improvements to Excel during the keynote. They were kind of glossed over, but during a session later on in the day, it expanded ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

The perceptions that critical operations are performed on the server side and that all data is stored there are incorrect. What many browsers do today involves reaching out over an unencrypted ...