A Philosophy Of Software Design is a fantastic book written by John Ousterhout. In this article I jot down ideas from the book that I find helpful/interesting.

This article is a deep-dive into how promises work under the hood in JavaScript. We look at the Event Loop, Callback Queue and the Microtask Queue and the interplay between these processes.

In my previous article I talked at length about constructor functions,which are a way of creating objects in JavaScript. In order to invoke a constructor function, we add the new keyword before a function call, like so: const person = new Person(); Putting the new keyword in front of any function changes that function from a function call to a construction call. It does 4 things (besides executing the function)

This article explores how the scoping mechanism works under the hood in JavaScript. Mastering scope is imperative to fully understand more advanced concepts such as closures and callback functions.

This article explores the scoping mechanism in JS. Mastering scope is really important to fully understand higher level concepts in JS, such as closures and callback functions.