Note: All of the following assumes you’re working with Azure Functions 2.0. Azure Functions are great. By default, all HTTP functions on Azure have their URLs prefixed with /api. For example, if you have functions named Function1 and Function2, you’d reach them by calling http://my-app.azurewebsites.net/api/Function1 and http://my-app.azurewebsites.net/api/Function2. Usually, this is fine. But it seems like…
So You Want to be a Freelance Web Developer
I originally wrote this as a comment on Reddit. Since it ended up being 1700+ words, I figured it would be worth posting here too! A caveat upfront: I haven’t done these things myself, because I’ve been lucky to have some awesome jobs I don’t want to leave. However, I’ve watched many of my peers…
How do JavaScript arrays work under the hood?
Front-end and full-stack developers use JavaScript arrays every day. Most of them, however, haven’t done a deep dive to understand how JS arrays are implemented in native code. Not doing this doesn’t mean you’re a bad developer. It’s entirely possible to use JavaScript effectively without digging in to understand how JS arrays are implemented. But…
JavaScript indexOf vs includes performance
This is a short response I wrote to a question on /r/javascript. The user who asked it was curious whether there would be any performance difference between using indexOf or includes when trying to find a substring within a larger string. Let’s take a look at the ECMAScript specification to see what it says. In the case of indexOf vs includes, you’ll…
Advice for Freelance Web Developers
This post is based on a reply I wrote on /r/webdev. Someone decided it was worth giving Reddit gold to, so I figure it’s worth posting here and expanding on it a bit. Just to be clear, I’m not currently working as a freelance web dev, although I’ve done it in the past. My advice…
JavaScript Array.prototype.push performance
This is a short response I wrote to a question on /r/javascript. The user who asked it was curious whether there would be any performance difference between adding elements to a JavaScript array by calling push, or manually adding a new object to an array by making a call like myArray[myArray.length] = obj. Let’s take a…