Yes we do, only everything in JavaScript is a weird, so the constructor is the class/function/constructor itself. // In JavaScriptfunctionAnimal(name){// this is the class and the constructor at the same time.//
I've seen Javascript used in Animate that defines _this instead of this. For example: _this()stop; or _this.parent.gotoAndPlay vs. this()stop; or - 11150335
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lua.vm.jsa port of the original Lua implementation to JS using Emscripten. It’s fast and works well but its interoperability with JS is compromised by the fact that we end up with two garbage collectors trying to manage the same memory. Fengari Fengari(moon in greek) is the Lua VM writt...
There is no way we can call this function without checking the source code or the documentation. Checking the source code is not a good option – the point of having functions and classes is to be able to use them without knowing how they are implemented. In other words, we should rely...
Tl;dr: We use !important because it solves annoying specificity issues. Despite being overkill in most situations, we haven't come across any practical drawbacks from globally enabling it. If you want to learn more about how we came to that conclusion and how CSS specificity works, read on!
So now we have an incredibly fast platform (thanks to non-blocking programing) with a programing language that’s incredibly easy to use (thanks to JavaScript). But is it enough? Will it last? I’m sure JavaScript will have an important place in the future. Let me tell you why: Functio...
and handlers, we use synonymous code. As we observed in the React component example, the this value is undefined because the context is lost after passing the handler as a callback — synonymous with the assignment operation. This is also what we observe in this non-React JavaScript snippet....
So the header is in the application as well. And the footer. And the navigation. And especially the routing. Why do we have to pull so many things into the javascript application, and thus onto the client side, which any cheap web server gives us for free? While adding a lot of ...
creator of both TypeScript and C#. TypeScript has failed to scale to the largest projects, he said, and customers have reported out of memory situations with large projects. “We’ve reached the limit of what we can squeeze out of JavaScript,” he said in an accompanying video prese...