The Dilemma of Context Binding One of the most notable features of arrow functions is that they do not bind their own this; instead, they inherit the this value from the outer scope. This can simplify ...

Even with competition from newer runtimes Deno and Bun, Node.js remains the flagship JavaScript platform on the server. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a ...

The Magical Journey of this: Elusive Pointing In Java, the behavior of this is drastically different from other object-oriented languages. It is not fixed but depends on how the function is called.

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

Today at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference, the company announced some improvements to Excel during the keynote. They were kind of glossed over, but during a session later on in the day, it expanded ...