The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps generally are a good barometer of how popular an article is/how well it has performed.

1. Programming Memes That Will Lighten Your Mood

By Atit

Likes: 2.7k

2. JavaScript Optimization Techniques to Know in 2021

By Atit

Likes: 1.5k

3. CSS Properties Nobody Is Talking About

By Anurag Kanoria

Likes: 1.2k

4. Mistakes I Made (and Regret) as a JavaScript Developer

By Ali Haider

Likes: 1.2k

5. Ways You Can Tell When Programmers Commit Their Life to Programming

By Josef Cruz

Likes: 1k

6. Why you should never use ‘npm install’ in your CI/CD pipelines

By Pascal Zwikirsch

Likes: 770

7. How To Create An Awesome Github Profile README

By Gapur Kassym

Likes: 590

8. React Learning Roadmap For 2021

By Mohit

Likes: 550

9. Double Your React Coding Speed With This Simple Trick

By Aleksey Kozin

Likes: 480

10. CSS Flexbox Explained With Examples

By Mehdi Aoussiad

Likes: 480

Conclusion

And there we have it! The 10 most popular…

I don’t talk about it often, but I really enjoy teaching.

A few kind words on an article I’ve written or a video I’ve made will sit with me for long after the comment was posted. Once a week, I volunteer as an English teacher and it warms my heart whenever a student uses a new word they had been taught the previous week.

2020 was a tough year and 2021 — so far — appears to be no different. To try and add some positivity into the world, I wanted to figure out what I could do to help…

As Editor of one of the most popular tech publications in the world, some of the questions I get asked a lot are: “what should I write about”, and “how can I write something that people will like?” Well, whether you’re here because you want answers to those questions, or you’re simply here to read some interesting things, here are the most popular articles on JavaScript In Plain English for 2020.

The following articles have been listed in order of number of claps received. This means that there may be a different order based on number of views, although claps…

One of the easiest ways to debug anything in JavaScript is by logging stuff using console.log. But there are a lot of other methods provided by the console that can help you debug better and smarter.

Let’s get started!

1. Stop doing this with console.log()

Let’s imagine we have a variable called name and we want to log it in the console. Often we find ourselves writing this:

console.log('name', name)

Since ES2015, we can use object shorthand notation whenever we want to log out things like this. That means we can write the following:

console.log({name})

And this will output the same thing.

2. A better way to log multiple items

Imagine a scenario when…

Understanding how objects and arrays work through the lens of Big O is an important thing to know, as it should influence the choices you make when structuring data in your apps.

Along with this, is it just as useful to know when you should be using an Object and when you should be using an Array.

Objects

When to use objects

• When you don’t need order
• When you need fast access/insertion and removal

Big O of Objects

• Insertion: O(1)
• Removal: O(1)
• Searching: O(N)
• Access: O(1)

Searching is O(N) because here we are searching for a value in the object, rather than searching for a key. …

For programmers — especially self-taught programmers — our first introduction to the world of ‘recursion’ is often in the form of something math-related. It’s not uncommon for programmers to intrinsically call upon some of our favourite F words when we think of recursion — no not that F word, these ones:

Fibonacci

function fibonacci(position) {
  if (position < 3) return 1;
  return fibonacci(position - 1) + fibonacci(position - 2);
}

Factorial

function factorial(num) {
  if (num === 1) return num;
  return num * factorial(num - 1);
}

Recursive versions of the fibonacci and factorial functions are some of the more…

What is Starter Pack?

Starter Pack unifies all the other CLI tools. Forget having to install/remember/google lots of different commands, access them all through Starter Pack!

This also means you don’t have to worry about always keeping the various CLI tools you use up to date because Starter Pack will take care of it for you. Keep Starter Pack up to date and all your other CLI tools will be as well!

Who is Starter Pack for?

Everyone! We have created a tool that is (hopefully) accessible to developers of all skill levels.

But what about competing standards? Doesn’t this just create another?

This is an understandable concern. …

1. Fun Fun Function

Fun Fun Function: Now defunct. Its creator, MPJ, took his excellent Quora question-answering abilities and translated that into a YouTube channel that currently has around 250k subscribers. Don’t let its defunct-ness stop you from checking this channel out, as there’s about 5 years worth of content on there for you to trawl through.

When he explains a concept, he explains it deeply. For example, MPJ has a video series on the concept of Testing, which is about 100 minutes long, spread across 7 videos. He doesn’t just show people how to write tests (which is what most tutorials miss the…