In this post, we’ll discuss the concept of types, compare static and dynamic types, and show an unobtrusive type inference package provided by Flow.org.
Facebook developed and maintains Flow. The package provides static typing to normally late-bound JavaScript code, including React code. It provides this analysis to a JavaScript application, even if it is an existing application. Flow operates by carrying out a static abstract syntax tree (AST) analysis of type flows at build time.
The React Native framework supports an installable mobile application created from JavaScript source code. It is not a React-based web app wrapper. It isn’t a code generator. There is no required application source code in Java, Objective-C, Swift, or Kotlin. Moreover, a single React Native application targets both iOS and Android devices.
In this blog, we show a quick-start that results in an executing application on a phone, within five minutes. That application is live-reloadable, native cross-platform, and written in JavaScript. It is not a web application.
Egon: Don’t cross the streams. Peter: Why? Egon: It would be bad. – Ghostbusters (1984) In this post I’ll touch on the emergence of JavaScript reactive streams. We’ll look at a cool online interactive tool that is useful for checking behavior of stream operators. I’ll finish by showing six RxJs JSFiddle examples that you can run and modify. Background Rich …
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. -Henry David Thoreau Dynamic Web Graphics The past… Applets In the previous millennium, HTML markup had limited support for graphics. If we wanted dynamic graphics, or even a page that responded seamlessly to requests, we embedded a JavaScript VM in the page to host an Applet. Indeed, Applets were an original …
“And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. Never.” ― Rapunzel Many languages have libraries of interesting schemes called promises, deferreds, or futures. Those help to tame the wild asynchronous into something more like the mundane sequential. JavaScript promises can promote separation of concerns in lieu of tightly coupled interfaces. This article is about JavaScript promises of …
