Humans are curious. When unburdened from the basic requirements, food, shelter and clothing, many of us seek to satisfy our curiosity. Some satiate their curiosity by travelling the world, some by reading mystical tales of magical beings and some by asking questions about the principals governing the world. …

I often find it difficult to memorize the purpose of various built-in functions in Javascript. What usually helps is to understand their inner mechanics, sort of an algorithm of how I would implement a function. Here’s an attempt to do so for Function.prototype.bind() method. Let’s understand how it works by…

So a few days ago, I started working with React. And, decided to go with function components (rather than class components) as suggested by most people online. So I started with the online tutorial on React’s site, and other documentation, it was mostly enough to get going in a few…

I intend to accomplish two purposes through this article: Show you a way to simulate Offline experience in Google Chrome, even when you have internet connection. (Bonus: You can use it to play the dinosaur game in office.) Discuss how your web application could detect when there is no internet…

Here’s a question for you: Let’s say you have a search box. You want to detect when the user presses the “Enter” key, and trigger a search query on that event. How would you implement it? If you have some experience with web development and Javascript, you would immediately think…

I’ve discussed in past about what CSS variables are, how to use them and how to change their values using Javascript. In this post I intend to show how you could allow the site visitors to change the site’s theme using CSS variables and Javascript. Before we begin, let’s look…

Earlier, I’ve discussed what CSS Variables are and how you could use them. So let’s see how you could change the value of a CSS variable. Just like you could read the values of CSS styles using Javascript, you could also read the values declared for these variables. Let’s say…

In my previous post, I discussed some basics of CSS variables. But one question is still unanswered: What can CSS variables do? For example, if I have a variable with color value, where can I use that variable? We’ve already seen color variables applied to color and background-color styles. …

CSS Variables have been around for a while. At the moment all major browsers, excluding IE 11 (no surprises there), support the feature. The feature has been available in Firefox since version 31, i.e. July 2014, while in Chrome since version 49, i.e. March 2016. In the past, I have…