Originally published October 2018. Updated September 2020. This article describes the features and functionality of TypeScript 4.0. One of the most interesting languages for large-scale application development is Microsoft’s TypeScript. TypeScript is unique in that it is a superset of JavaScript, but with optional types, interfaces, generics, and more.
Introduction Outline Accessing paint metrics from JavaScript Reporting paint timing metrics to a server Viewing paint metrics in the Chrome DevTools Browser Implementations Traditionally, front-end performance focused primarily on page load times as an important performance metric.
Automating browsers provide many benefits including faster execution of repetitive tasks, ability to parallelise workloads and improved test coverage for your website. Google recently announced Puppeteer, a new tool to assist with Chrome browser automation.
Why should you care about streams? On the modern web platform, many interesting features appear which enable new functionality which were not previously possible, for example, Web Bluetooth, Background Sync & Web VR.
You can use Intern to test just about everything! How about testing your Grunt tasks? Even though Intern focuses on tests authored as AMD modules, it certainly can be used to test CommonJS modules, like those used with Grunt.
As part of our great updates to the Dojo Tutorials for Dojo 1.8, we’ve been busy creating several new tutorials. Feature Detection and Device Optimized Builds Dojo 1.7+ now uses the popular has() pattern for feature detection in combination with a has()-aware build system.
As part of our great updates to the Dojo Tutorials for Dojo 1.8, we’ve been busy creating several new tutorials. Key Events This tutorial teaches you how to easily handle keyboard events with Dojo’s event normalization and dojo/keys implementation. Check out the Key Events tutorial for Dojo 1.8, 1.7, or 1.
SitePen was in full effect at DojoConf 2011. Not only did we lead up to the conference with our amazing tutorials, we also impressed with our intense knowledge of all things Dojo. In case you missed it, or if you just want to see them again, here are our presentations.
DojoConf 2011 is under way, and we continue our Dojo enlightenment with a trifecta of tutorials! Dijit Themes, Buttons, and Textboxes In this tutorial, we will show you the basics of creating and using simple form elements using Dijit—including how to set up a Dijit theme for your web application. Check out the tutorial.
On the eve of DojoConf 2011, let the tutorials continue! Today’s topic is dojoConfig. Let’s dig in, shall we? Configuring Dojo with dojoConfig The dojoConfig object (formerly djConfig) allows you to set options and default behavior for various aspects of the toolkit.
Just 3 days left until DojoConf 2011 and our series of tutorials leading up to it is almost complete! Here’s today’s tutorial… Using dojo.behavior It is frequently useful to isolate a page’s “behavior” from its style and its content.
DojoConf 2011 is THIS WEEK! Let’s roll into the conference with our latest tutorial… Creating Dojo Stores In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basic APIs all dojo.stores follow and how to create your own store—including how to handle query results. Check out the tutorial.
We’re closing in on DojoConf 2011! Are you excited yet? We’re keeping up the excitement with another Dojo Tutorial! Slippin’ Sliders with Dijit The HTML5 specification provides many new features, such as the <input type=”range”> element which allows users to choose from a range of values.
Less than two weeks out from DojoConf 2011! Let’s keep this tutorial train rolling! Embedding Objects with dojox.embed In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the dojox.embed project, and how to use it to include plugin-based objects such as Flash and Quicktime movies—as well as learning about the special proxy method available for Flash objects.
Two weeks out from DojoConf 2011! Ready for the next Dojo Tutorial? Working with Dates in Dojo Dates can be awkward to work with in JavaScript. This tutorial walks through the use of dojo.date—Dojo’s answer to the need for a standard library for date math, comparisons, parsing and formatting. Check out the tutorial.
Wow! We’re just 15 days out from DojoConf 2011 and our new dojo tutorial everyday series is going strong with our latest edition… Prototyping with dijit.Declaration In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the special dijit.Declaration widget, which was designed to allow you to quickly prototype custom widgets—all using declarative syntax. Check out the tutorial.
You didn’t think that with just 18 days left until DojoConf 2011 we would leave you hanging and not post another tutorial in our new dojo tutorial everyday series did you? I thought not! Here’s today’s tutorial! Getting Jiggy with JSONP JSON with Padding (JSONP) has become a common technique for accessing cross-domain resources from
Only 23 days left until DojoConf 2011 and our new dojo tutorial everyday marathon is going strong. Here’s todays tutorial! Connecting a Store to a Tree The Dojo Tree component is a powerful tool for visual presentation of hierarchical data.
With just 24 days left until DojoConf 2011 our new dojo tutorial everyday marathon continues! Using Custom Modules with a CDN There are a number of benefits to loading Dojo from a CDN, but using it and custom modules can be a little confusing at first.
We’re 28 days away and as promised we’re releasing a tutorial everyday until DojoConf 2011! Here’s today’s tutorial! Using Dojo Data Dojo Data is the legacy data interface used to abstract data consumers (like widgets) from the concerns of data providers. While the new object store interface has superseded the dojo.
Are you sitting down? Anxiously crossing off the days on your calendar until DojoConf 2011? We are too! We’re so excited to be sponsoring and speaking at DojoConf that we can hardly sleep… so instead of sleeping we’re writing Dojo tutorials and releasing a new one every day until DojoConf (Sept.
Next in our series of Dojo Tutorials, we have the first of three tutorials on the DataGrid! You asked. We listened. Let’s talk about the DataGrid. The DataGrid is the central component of many applications due to its effective and usable presentation of tabular data.
Building on a previous topic, we continue our ongoing series of Dojo tutorials with Advanced Charting. Make your charts as flexible as your data While most developers only need basic charts, dojox.charting is capable of highly advanced charts: charts with animations, charts that respond to changes in data, and charts that respond to events.
Today we continue our ongoing series of Dojo tutorials with Dojo Charting. Dress up your data with dojox.charting! Presenting statistical data in a readable, eye-catching manner is important, but it can also be difficult. The dojox.
Building on our continuing series of Dojo Tutorials, learn about Creating Builds. Building your applications, literally The build system is critical for any real web application. Build applications often load around 10x faster than development applications. Load time is a key factor in user experience.
Next in our ongoing series of Dojo mobile tutorials, we create the Settings View of our TweetView app. TweetView: Creating the Settings View In the previous post, Getting Started with TweetView: Tweets and Mentions, we solidified our mobile application’s file structure, reviewed TweetView’s goals, and created the Tweets and Mentions views by coding tweetview._ViewMixin andtweetview.TweetView.
Next in our ongoing series of Dojo tutorials, learn what’s available Beyond Dojo’s Core. More than just DOM and Ajax One of the things that differentiates Dojo from many other JavaScript libraries is its scope. While you can simply use dojo.