HackerRank: JavaScript overtakes Java as most popular programming language

HackerRank is best known for its competitive programming challenges, which span multiple Computer Science domains and aim to evaluate developers based on skill. But the company also drums up interest by offering related tools and surveys.

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What Are The Best Software Engineering Principles?

Software Development Principles — it is a number of specific rules and recommendations, which engineers need to be followed during program implementation if they want to write beautiful, understandable and maintainable code.

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Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects

When implementing a user interface in a browser, it’s good to minimize those differences and issues wherever you can, so that the UI is predictable. Keeping track of all of those differences is hard, so I’ve put together a list of common issues, with their solutions, as a handy reference guide for when you’re working on a new project.

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How to define a highly scalable folder structure for your Angular project

Finding a suitable folder structure for my Angular applications is something I’ve struggled with for a long time. This became a real issue in my first ever real-world Angular project — especially when the application grew in size. I ended up continuously adding new features with no real structure in place.

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Functional Programming Fundamentals

In the past few years, React and Redux have generated a surge of Functional Programming which we often take for granted. However many of us never got a chance to learn the fundamentals. In this post, we’ll cover the fundamentals of Functional Programming and how they apply to modern JavaScript.

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Advanced caching with RxJS

When building web applications, performance should always be a top priority. There are many things we can do to speed up our Angular applications like tree-shaking, AoT (ahead-of-time compilation), lazy loading modules or caching. To get an overview of practices that will help you boost the performance of your Angular applications, we highly recommend you to check out the Angular Performance Checklist by Minko Gechev. In this post we focus on caching.

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11 Awesome JavaScript Extensions for Visual Studio Code

One of the most impressive parts of Visual Studio Code is customizability, especially via extensions. I won't cover framework specific extensions, but here are some of the best extensions in VS Code for writing JavaScript.

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