Every website that deals with video streaming in any way has a way of showing a short preview of a video without actually playing it. YouTube, for instance, plays a 3-4 seconds long excerpt from the video whenever the user hovers over the thumbnail. Other popular way of creating a preview is to take a few frames from a video and make a slideshow.
JSONP has always been one of the most poorly explained concepts in all of web development. This is likely due to its confusing name and overall sketchy background. Prior to the adoption of CORS, JSONP was the only option to...
Proxy is one of the most overlooked concepts introduced in the ES6 version of JavaScript.
Nest is a back-end framework for creating scalable applications. It works as an abstraction over the underlying HTTP server library. Currently, it supports two libraries — Express and Fastify — while still enabling developers to use their own APIs when...
To use a method on a given array, we type: [].methodName. They are all defined in the Array.prototype object. Here, however, we won’t be using these — instead, we’ll define our own versions starting from the simple method and build...
Having worked on a fair share of React and Redux applications, I can’t help but notice that many people have a hard time indicating to the user that a given action is currently taking place.
