The Feynman Razor
Complexity and jargon are used to mask a lack of deep understanding.
If you can’t explain it to a 5-year-old, you don’t really understand it.
If someone uses a lot of complexity and jargon to explain something, they probably don’t understand it.
Frontend is not just displaying pre made components with data 👀
Backend is not just fetching from database. 🤯
Both can be a lot more complicated than that. Stop saying one is harder than the other without really working through the bredth of the other 🛑
Amazon will lose $1.6 billion in sales if their page takes 1 second longer to load. 40% of users will close a page if it doesn't open in 3+ seconds.
Thread: 17 lessons I learned about making fast websites.
Stage 3 JavaScript proposal.
The .at() method.
This will take an integer value and return the item at that index. Also giving us the possibility to use negative values like Python.
Definitely excited to see this one coming to the next JavaScript version!