How often in software development do you think about rewriting some 3rd party module from scratch? The popular vision of the problem says that we should not reinvent a wheel and use existing paid or free components. That is right in general. How often something existing exactly fits needs of your project? From my experience, I would say, “never”, especially if we are talking about some complicated UI elements. If my post is too long for you, you now can…

There are a lot of posts about NodeJS describing innovative solutions for JavaScript on the server side. However, there is another place where JavaScript, V8 and Chrome HTML engines can be applied. That place is your desktop, and Electron is a technology that makes it possible to create desktop applications with JavaScript/HTML. I'm sure most of us already have experience in Electron. I'm sure that everybody who is reading has at least one Electron based application on this desktop. And…

Today I'll just share my opinion so, no useful information below :) There are a lot of discussions around TypeScript, CoffeeScript, and other languages translated to JS. Let me add several words to this “holly war”:) I was codding for a couple of months with TypeScript. It was a complex UI with Knockout.js and Durandal. Yesterday I switched to a pure JavaScript task. I have to help with other our projects and I have to write very simple JS code,…