Table Of ContentsIntroductionBuilding the bridge with Web3.js Introduction In the previous articles of this series, we learned how a basic contract is made, and we found that Ethereum Studio is a simple and easy way to develop and deploy on a … Read more
JavaScript
Getting started with WebAssembly and Rust
Table Of ContentsSo why WebAssembly?… and why Rust?Getting started: setupOur first WebAssembly moduleCalling WebAssembly from a web pageConclusions We live in a world where JavaScript code is run literally everywhere. We have it in the browser, as … Read more
Douglas Crockford and his book “How JavaScript works”
Table Of ContentsWho is Douglas CrockfordChapter 2: How Numbers WorkChapter 24: How Optimisation Works More than ten years have passed since Douglas Crockford released his first book about JavaScript. It’s now time to embrace a new one. It's … Read more
Front-end development with Angular & NgRx
Front-end development of web applications has always been challenging and never settles on established technologies for too long.In the last few years, the Single Page Application (SPA) paradigm has been widely adopted to build complex front-end … Read more
Douglas Crockford: the good part of JavaScript
If you are the man who discovered the JSON data interchange format, the world's most loved data format, and discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript, then people can be assured that your thoughts about what will be the big next programming … Read more
Reactive Forms in Angular
The Frontend talks are very popular, mainly because of the fast pace of the ever-evolving JavaScript and the entire web ecosystem related to it. Every day there is a new framework or a new state management to help us build cool new applications.In … Read more
Free coding lessons tackling women’s “imposter syndrome” in tech
Anna Brailsford, CEO at Code First: Girls, is training an army of coding women to infiltrate the "boys' club" of tech.Coding the future: Anna Brailsford What is Code First: Girls? Code First: Girls is one of the largest communities of … Read more
Refactoring an Angular application through a live coding session
Hello Fabio, you are the one who brought the Angular community to Rome! You are also the one who talked about refactoring an application during one of the #AperiTech meetups. Could you tell us more about this? Exactly: on that occasion, lasting a … Read more
Graph Analytics in the AperiTech Community
Hello Marco. You’re an active member of many tech communities in Rome. First of all, let’s take a deep dive into Graph Analytics. Could you tell us more about it? Of course! The basic idea is very simple. We've decided to collect all the data from … Read more
The Magic behind RxJS
Reinventing the wheel is often necessary in order to understand how a library works under the hood and to better learn something complex. It is a very good option, contrary to popular belief, in the case of a developer wanting to improve his/her … Read more
The DOM and its shadow
Nowadays, most frontend web developers build their UI with well-known libraries and frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, and similar. Maybe many of them almost forgot the way to dynamically create HTML elements by accessing the Document Object Model … Read more
Thinking in Web Component
The development of Web Application has led us to rewrite some pieces of User Interface so many times in different varieties of JavaScript frameworks for compatibility and interoperability. When we build our User Interface, we have to think about … Read more
Write once, debug everywhere
Hello Marco. Some time ago you presented one of your talks “Write once, debug everywhere”. Could you tell us a little bit more about it? Through talking to people in the community chat, a request emerged to have a closer look at the debugging … Read more
Introduction to Service Workers
Hello Matteo, you are the community leader of RomaJS and you are also a speaker at Codemotion conferences. For whose who don’t know you, could you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Matteo Manchi, I am the CEO at Advance, a consulting … Read more
Your Node.js API in a Serverless world
Hello Matteo, some time ago at one of the RomeJS meetups you talked about Serverless. Can you tell us more about it? In the talk, we aimed at bring an application, mainly JavaScript, onto the Serverless appearance. Serverless is an infrastructure … Read more
Kickoff a React project: CRA, Next.js or Gatsby?
This is a simple guide for humans to not get lost into the React bootstrapping solutions out there. Starting a React project implies the configuration of multiple tools like Webpack, Babel and more to create the foundations of your web application: … Read more
Building mobile applications in JavaScript with React Native
React Native is a JavaScript framework that allows us to build mobile applications. It is based on React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building web user interfaces, but instead of targeting browsers, it generates fully-native mobile … Read more
Blockchain in JavaScript with Lisk Alpha SDK
Blockchain has witnessed a growing interest in the last few years. And this is not a surprise. Thanks to this technology, you can create transactions that are then included in a distributed database. Such database is distributed in a peer-to-peer … Read more
Concerning Modules – how the lost wisdom of the ‘70s helps us today
Douglas Crockford describes himself as the Godfather of JavaScript. When I saw he was giving the main keynote at Codemotion Amsterdam, I knew we were in for an interesting talk, and I wasn’t disappointed. Rather than talk about JavaScript, Douglas … Read more
Why should you care to learn TypeScript?
One of the most intriguing innovations of web technologies is the TypeScript programming language. Although very powerful and easily integrated into the existing JavaScript ecosystem, it is not as widely adopted yet. Nevertheless, it has the … Read more