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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Choosing a framework Among the many possible frameworks for creating a web server in JavaScript, we'll use one of the most well-known: Express. To paraphrase its web site, Express is "a minimal and ...

Learn how to build views in plain JavaScript in a way that is maintainable, performant, and fun. Writing JavaScript Views the Hard Way is inspired by such books as Learn C the Hard Way. It is a ...