javascript - Coach Steve Brownlee

January 23, 2019

javascript

Novice Attempt at Tic Tac Toe using Graph Theory

I've always been fascinated by graph theory. Last year, I bought a beginner book (Introduction to Graph Theory) on it, and consumed it q

August 18, 2018

react

React View Switching with Custom Events

Any component that needs to switch the view based on user gesture, or other event, can simply dispatch an event with a data payload. The payload is optional, and contains any data the next view may need to do its job.

June 09, 2018

javascript

Custom Object Iterators in JavaScript

Imagine that you have an object in JavaScript that maintains a list of items, and you want the object itself to be iterable, but the object also has other important properties - such as metadata about the list of items.

September 20, 2017

javascript

Block Modules Instead of IIFE

With the most recent versions of JavaScript, we now have more options for creating closures to mimic a private scope that you find in langua

March 23, 2017

javascript

Practical JavaScript Meta Programming

Proxy & Reflect This article will show the basics to building a Proxy object that traps some standard object behavior, and implements

March 22, 2017

javascript

Fun with JavaScript Proxies

Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only. In several of these fun examples, I extend native objects. I don't advocat

March 20, 2017

javascript

WeakMap for JavaScript Private Data

Private Data in JavaScript A common way that developers expose a public interface for interacting with private data in JavaScript is by us

July 24, 2014

split

A/B testing journey

When I joined Lonely Planet in March of 2014, it had been a long time since I was responsible for any public facing web properties of a comp