Here's the question: What's the difference between these two methods of creating a function?function a() { //This is known as a function declaration console.log("Hello"); } var b = function() { //This is known as a function expression console.log("World"); }Both of these methods do almost the same thing, however there…

Let's be honest. We all write bad code.Sometimes, we write absolutely shocking code.In the programming community, we have an obsession with "good" code – and it's not difficult to see why. Good code is objectively better than bad code. It's faster, cleaner, more maintainable – Why would you settle for…

I've seen a lot of people asking about closures on the internet.If you ask around on forums, or reddit, you have no trouble getting an answer – The problem is the answer you get looks something like this:Imagine you have a backpack. Inside that backpack there is a folder,…

If you're transitioning from absolute layouts into flex-box, you end up with this annoying situation where you want to keep something square (or at least at a 1:1 ratio). Flex-box is supremely powerful at spacing things out beautifully, and sizing them according to their parent elements, but it can…

When you start working in Javascript and building apps and webpages, you get used to running code based on inputs - someone pressed a button, and then your code gets to run.This is fine for most webpages, but what if you want to to make changes on the page…

When we learn to write code, we spend a lot of our time doing exactly that - writing code. As we transition into careers and larger projects however, we find out that we actually spend most of our time reading code - and we quickly learn that developers can't write…

Let's face it, writing unit tests is hard.Many new coders take a long time to get into unit testing. They're scary, a lot of effort, and it's difficult to understand how they work. When we do eek out a few unit tests, they don't seem to be proving anything.…

When you're starting out with CSS and the web, it's easy to get into frameworks like Bootstrap, or Bulma. They're an excellent tool for fast prototyping, and getting to grips with how to build a website. However, these frameworks are opinionated, and as we grow we hit a point where…

Every so often an article crops up with some big list of rules to follow to keep your code readable - It's something everyone seems to want, but it is also accompanied by a bloodbath in the comments from people who disagree on how to do it. As a coding…