Properties in JavaScript

Continuing my exploration of JavaScript, with Kyle Simpson's this and Object Prototypes as my guide, I'm going to look at some of the functionality introduced with ES5 to allow greater control over the behavior of object properties, which Simpson looks at in Chapter 3 of his book.

Looking at 'this' in JavaScript

JavaScript looks a lot like C#. But the internal plumping is utterly different. I've always found this somewhat befuddling. As a C# developer, you kind of think you know how things are working, but often you don't. Which makes figuring out what's happening when things are not working really challenging. I've just started reading a book in Kyle Simpson's (@getify) accurately titled series, You Don't Know JavaScript, a slim monograph on this & Object Prototypes, and things are kind of clearer. Kind of.

Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code

Last weekend I took my first steps in Node.js development, adding a small feature to a Hexo plugin. Hexo, as I blogged last week, is a static site generator written in Node.js, to which I am planning to migrate this blog. I made good progress as first, but soon required a debugger, and took the opportunity to learn the basics of VS Code as a Node editor and debugger. This article will walk through the basics of environment set up and debugging with VS Code.