The DreamFactory REST API enables database connections using a wide variety of front end scenarios. This simple sample app demonstrates how DreamFactory easily can be used to connect to a MySQL database with JavaScript. It’s a simple address book, where contacts can be created, shown, updated, deleted and grouped: basically, CRUD operations. The Address Book is a very simple one page app based on plain JavaScript and jQuery.

There are now nearly 9 million apps worldwide, and practically all of them run on an internal clock. Financial apps are built on timestamped data. Office apps run on calendars. Social apps are defined by their feeds, timelines and anniversaries. So, as devs, we need to know how to compute date and time. JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language, has plenty of helpful APIs, but they can throw up complications if you’ve never used them before.

Character encoding is a critical aspect of JavaScript development on both the frontend and backend. In this article, we'll explore the basics of character encoding, its importance, and how it affects data rendering on your web pages. We'll also discuss best practices and common pitfalls to help you avoid encoding-related issues in your projects.

JavaScript has become an essential programming language for web developers. It is used to develop complex web applications with dynamic and interactive features. However, debugging and troubleshooting JavaScript code can be a daunting task, especially when the codebase is large. This is where JavaScript Source Maps come in handy. They provide a way to map the minified or transpiled code back to its original source code, making it easier to debug and troubleshoot issues.

Selenium and JavaScript are ushering in a new era of excellence in web automation testing. Dive into the tutorial to find out how using both together can help you reimagine testing speed and efficiency.

Jest is a popular JavaScript testing framework built on top of Jasmine. In this tutorial, learn how to enable Jest on your software projects quickly.

To attract more users and improve the overall user experience, it is crucial to have a visually appealing and well-designed user interface (UI) for our websites, applications, blogs, products, etc. The UI serves as the point of interaction between the user and the application. For example, consider the eCommerce portal. This user interface displays how the e-commerce application connects with its users through an attractive, accessible, and easy-to-understand design.

In the vast universe of coding, JavaScript has earned itself a reputation of being a dynamic, high-level, interpreted language, often employed for enhancing user experiences on the web. However, as the complexity of web applications increased, developers craved more structure, static typing, and syntax variations. Enter the JavaScript dialects. They can be seen as extensions of the original JavaScript, with each one providing alternatives suited to diverse needs and preferences.

Welcome to the final part of our Express to Fastify series. In the previous installments, we explored the unique features and advantages of Fastify over Express. Now, you'll put what you've learned so far into practice by migrating an existing Express application to Fastify. You'll avoid rewriting an entire application from scratch by gradually transitioning to Fastify.