Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
My latest posts on JavaScript, covering topics from the React ecosystem and elsewhere.
Prior to Node v0.12, writing a command line tool in Node was a rather difficult proposition. There was no way to execute a command synchronously, so tools like ShellJS worked around this by blocking the event loop until a 'done' file was created on the filesystem signifying that the command…
Brandon Konkle
NOTE: Much of the information here is outdated. Watchify [https://github.com/substack/watchify] eliminates the need for a vendor bundle entirely. Use it with Gulp via vinyl-source-stream [https://www.npmjs.com/package/vinyl-source-stream]. Last month I talked about one of my favorite tools for Java…
Brandon Konkle
In May of last year, Facebook released an open source library for building frontend components called React [http://facebook.github.io/react/]. It's built around some rather unorthodox philosophies about the browser and application structure, but over time it has gained quite a bit of steam as m…
Brandon Konkle
We've all been there. You're working on an project with a lot of JavaScript, and you need to add a new widget that depends on some libraries. You have a complex template structure and you don't know which libraries have been added as <script> tags already, or where they might be.…
Brandon Konkle
Grunt [http://gruntjs.com/] is a powerful task runner with an amazing assortment of plugins. It's not limited to the frontend, but there are many frontend-oriented plugins that you can take advantage of to combine and minify your static media, compile sass and less files, watch for changes durin…
Brandon Konkle