Javascript terms
From DOM manipulation to async superpowers
JavaScript has evolved from a scripting curiosity into a full-stack language powering browsers, servers, and everything in between. This category covers the language core — closures, prototypes, async patterns, the event loop, modern ES2024+ features — as well as runtime behaviour that trips up developers at every experience level. Understanding JavaScript deeply means fewer bugs and more confident code.
Page Visibility API HTML5
The Page Visibility API tells you when a tab is hidden or visible — use it to pause animations, polls, and video when the user switches tabs.
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javascript beginner
Permissions API HTML5
The Permissions API (navigator.permissions.query()) lets you check the current state of browser permissions — granted, denied, or prompt — before requesting sensitive APIs.
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javascript intermediate
Promise.allSettled / Promise.any / Promise.race ES2020
Three Promise combinators for handling multiple async operations — allSettled() waits for all to complete regardless of failure, any() resolves with the first success, race() resolves or rejects with the first to settle.
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javascript intermediate
Prototype Chain Errors & hasOwnProperty ES2022
Iterating objects with for...in includes inherited prototype properties — use hasOwnProperty() or Object.keys() to iterate only own properties.
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javascript intermediate
package.json & npm — Alongside composer.json npm3
package.json manages JS dependencies and build scripts for PHP projects using JavaScript — the npm counterpart to Composer.
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javascript beginner
Performance API & User Timing ES2015
Browser APIs for measuring JavaScript execution time with high precision — performance.now(), performance.mark(), performance.measure(), and the PerformanceObserver.
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javascript intermediate
Promises & Promise Chaining ES2015 A Promise represents an asynchronous operation's eventual result — .then()/.catch()/.finally() chain handlers without nesting callbacks.
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javascript intermediate
Prototypal Inheritance ES5
JavaScript objects inherit from other objects via a prototype chain — class syntax is syntactic sugar over this mechanism.
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javascript intermediate
Proxy & Reflect API ES2015
Proxy wraps an object and intercepts fundamental operations (get, set, delete) via handler traps — Reflect provides the default implementations of those operations.
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javascript advanced