Gregor Richardson

Javascript promises are a way to control asynchronous communication within your code. Each promise is a placeholder for an eventual response. By using promises you can queue your code to only execute when the response is returned. This is useful when waiting on AJAX requests, reading content from a file, or performing computationally heavy calculations. In the past this functionality required third party libraries, like $.get in JQuery, but are now natively supported through ES6. In fact, if you use the fetch method , you’re already using promises.

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This article introduces the concepts of behavior driven development. Together we will configure a very basic Mocha test using the Chai framework.

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This is an evolution of a 2017 Google Sheet asset portfolio . The task this year was to turn the concept into a more robust, reusable tool.

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What Is Vue.js

Vue is a progressive frontend javascript framework that allows you to add reusable components into any web application without the need for rewriting your entire codebase. Designed to be nimble and easy to learn, Vue provides many of the advantages of ReactJS and Angular 2.0 but with a much gentler learning curve and with fewer restrictions.

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In this post we will setup a Node Express server, hook it up to a Firebase Database and deploy to Firebase Hosting. All this can be done through the free Spark tier. You can view a live, styled variation of the finished product here .

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