Have you ever used an app to snap a funny filter on your face and share it with friends? Have you been online reading restaurant reviews and clicked a link for directions to take you there? Maybe you’ve wondered how different applications can access your hardware, location or other applications. Or maybe you haven’t, because […]
Tag: javascript
Type Tactically with TypeScript
Key Topics Outline Statically Typed vs. Dynamically Typed Languages What is TypeScript and How Does it Work Benefits of Using TypeScript Is that all there is to TypeScript? Statically Typed vs. Dynamically Typed Languages Integrating TypeScript with JavaScript can be tough or it can be seamless. It all depends on how you, as a programmer, […]
Is Ionic on Your Radar?: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Weather Apps
Why Use a Hybrid Framework? When developing mobile apps intended to be used by as many users as possible, dev teams want to make it available on as many devices as possible. That usually means developing for both iOS and Android. Developing two different code bases using native tooling and languages can be quite the […]
Take Your Tables to Top with Tabulator
If you are looking for an alternative to dgrid, then look no further than Tabulator. Tabulator allows you to create interactive tables from any HTML table, JavaScript array, AJAX data source, or JSON formatted data. It’s easy to use, has great documentation, comes with numerous pre-packaged themes, and more. There are many ways to include […]
What’s Up with Recursion and Promises?
Last month, we introduced the topic of recursion. As you work with recursion more and more, you will inevitably encounter scenarios where your recursive function returns a promise. This situation is often a little tricky the first few times a developer encounters it, so we thought we’d do a deep – dive article for any […]
Checking Out the Esri JavaScript API v4.18
Last month, Esri gave us all a wonderful gift in the form of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.18 release. Now that we’ve had a bit of time to play around with it, we thought we would explore some major highlights and a few important notes from the update. ES Modules The 4.x JavaScript API […]
A Tale of Two JavaScripts
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. While the opening for one of Dickens’ famous novels might not have been about programming, it does describe the process of understanding synchronous and asynchronous programming quite well. A lot of interns and new GeoDevs get thrown off by these concepts, so we […]