Prototypes are a challenging JavaScript programming concept to understand. To put it simply, prototypes are JavaScript method of implementing Object Oriented Programming (OOP). With that in mind, knowing about Prototypes can help programmers better understand the often strange nuances of JavaScript programming. What you should know Before delving into prototypes, it is important that…

Values are an important subject that I believe is often overlooked. Most people have adopted their values from their upbringings and past life experiences. Strangely enough, most people are not aware of their own values (Research Digest, 2016). Values are the pillars that guide our lives and the decisions we…

On the surface, the concept of immutable state seems simple and easy to comprehend. It is in its application where developers seem to struggle… I’ve had no trouble at all understanding what an immutable state is but as soon as I started trying to implement it, I tore my eyes…

API or Application Program Interface can be many things in the world of programing. In essence, they are a form of data that can be passed from the client to the server and vise versa. This data can be anything from a defined function to a Boolean etc. What makes…

If you weren’t already aware, React is a JavaScript library used to build user interfaces. It’s component based syntax facilitates a pleasant development experience and once mastered developers can create applications much more efficiently. React improves speed of development but also improves performance because page components are rendered individually. Essentially…

Object constructors are an important aspect of object oriented programming. At first, these constructors can be difficult to understand because they are a type of function and not their own separate thing. The first step in understanding how they work is to first learn how to use dot notation to…

The spread operator is used to manipulate arrays, strings and numbers. The way it changes these elements is quite unique and can help you achieve some pretty specific tasks. In essence, the spread operator does exactly as it sais. It “spreads" whatever it’s attached to it. …

Concatenation is a word to describe the connection between two or more things, much like the hoops in a chain. In JavaScript, these chains are composed of strings and multiple different links are used to concatenate them together. Today, we are covering what strings are and how to concatenate them. Strings …

.sort() — The .sort() method is one of the many methods that iterate over an array. This method in particular is used to sort an array based on its elements. When called directly on an array without any arguments, it will return a sorted array but it may not behave the way…