JavaScript

Finally, bring some humor to your weekend with a little JavaScript and honking. 🦆

Google has officially released its Native Lazyload plugin for WordPress to take advantage of the Chrome browser's new native lazy-loading capabilities. For other browsers, there is JavaScript fallback. Jon Henshaw explains how the plugin works, with this advice: "If the…

Kent C. Dodds explains what JavaScript features you should be familiar with when you're learning and using React. Kent covers array methods, promises, async/await, template literals, and more.

Here's a nice long (and updated) list of advanced JavaScript questions, compiled by Lydia Hallie. Test and refresh your knowledge or prepare for a coding interview.

Leszek Swirski offers some advice about code caching for JavaScript developers to improve startup time on commonly visited sites. Leszek focuses on caching in Chrome/V8, but most of his examples probably apply to other browsers as well.

Sarah Chima has written an excellent article for developers about local storage — what it is and JavaScript methods can be used to manipulate it. 🗄️