javascript

A 2-post collection

3 Cool Uses For Tagged Template Literals

Posted on August 28, 2017 in javascript

ES6 Template literals have become one of my most used JavaScript features. Tagged template literals work about the same way but let you write your own "tagger" or handler function which does the interpolation. Why would you want to? I could think of 3 reasons. But first the gory details

Building a Single Page Application Router With Vanilla JS

Posted on August 24, 2017 in javascript

A good way to understand how complex mechanisms work is to build a simpler version of them from scratch. As most modern JS frameworks provide some sort of client side routing, writing our own will improve our understanding of those frameworks.