As the differences between native apps and web apps slowly disappear, web developers get access to more hardware, one of which is the vibration motor.
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Chrome’s new auto-play policy
The most popular browser today with over 60% share of the pie is chrome. Chrome has updated their default autoplay policy affecting websites which autoplay videos with sound.
Introduction to the User Timing API
The User Timing API allows you to easily measure how much of time your code blocks or events take so that you can find any performance bottlenecks in your code. With the API, you can find out how measure the time long tasks like your network requests take.
Introduction to Reporting API
There are many errors that can prevent your users from enjoying the best experiences on your website. CORS errors, deprecations, browser interventions, network errors are just some of the errors that your users may encounter. With the reporting API, your browser will now send details of errors or warning directly to your server so that … Read more
An Introduction to WebWorkers
JavaScript is single threaded, all your code runs on the main thread. Now if you run some CPU intensive task like compressing a large file, the browser will become unresponsive while it performs the task. To overcome this, we use WebWorkers.
WebWorkers are external JavaScript files that run in a separate thread, so that you main thread can remain free to process user input.
Introduction to IndexedDB
Relational Databases like MySQL are great for storing , updating and reading data. Though they come with two disadvantages.
- Since the databases reside on the server, fetching and updating data depends on the quality of the user’s internet connection. If the user has slow internet, it will take much longer to data to be fetched and updated.
- Also when the user loses connectivity, there is no way to connect to the database until the connection is restored
IndexedDB is a JavaScript-based object-oriented database which runs client-side on your browser, so it works in bad networks or when the user is offline. IndexedDB stores data as key value pairs, key can be any string, value can be any object. IndexedDB also indexes data stored so that you can perform high performance searches on the data. IndexedDB also supports transactions
An introduction to ES6
ES6 also know as ECMAScript 2015 and JavaScript 6 is the 6th major release of the ECMAScript language specification.
ECMAScript is a Standard for scripting languages and JavaScript is the most popular implementation of the ECMAScript Standard. ES6 introduces some new features which makes programming in JavaScript better.