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。
I’m a Software Architect with more than 15 years of experience creating high performance server and front-end applications targeting web and mobile platforms, & today I lead a team at Formidable Labs.
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
http://dailyjs.com/files/2013-survey-summary.pdf Some things that I found interesting: Compile-to-JavaScript pretty much just means CoffeeScript. * CoffeeScript 590 64% * TypeScript 181 19% * ClojureScript 38 4% * Dart 38 4% * Other 82 9% The "No semicolon" movement is very much a…
Brandon Konkle
I just found out about React [http://facebook.github.io/react/], a JavaScript library from Facebook The philosophy is really interesting. As I understand it, when there are changes to the data they render to a shadow DOM (which is very fast since nothing is actually updated on the screen), diff it…
Brandon Konkle
Lately I've been experimenting with whitespace sensitivity in my template language (Jade) and precompilers (CoffeeScript, Sass, etc.). My initial reaction is that I love whitespace sensitivity! You don't have to type nearly as much, and you don't have to worry as much about the coding st…
Brandon Konkle