JavaScript statements control the overall ... and they can also be used to declare classes and functions. Unlike properties, methods, and events, which are inseparable from the object that owns ...

This JavaScript thing might just catch on. The world's most popular programming language is starting to look like a real programming language, with classes, modules, promises and more. There's even a ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order ...

In high school, Latasha Gandy was an academic star. She had a GPA of 4.2 and graduated second in her class from St. Paul Public Schools’ now-defunct Arlington High School. But when Gandy went to ...

Although the TextEdit element is still using those classes under the hood, they aren't accessible. Instead, you get simple JavaScript wrapper ... an inline anonymous function instead of having ...

In JavaScript, though, the same code is perfectly fine: This is because JavaScript scopes your variables to functions and not to if-blocks. But, we can achieve block-like scope through the use of ...