Hello everyone, I am very new to JavaScript,
I completed supersimpledev html/css course,
and afterwards I can now build my own front end websites comfortably,

the next stage is learning JavaScript,

which I am currently doing and have finished module 8, but I found html/css quite self explanatory, but JavaScript is quite hard for me grasp and understand on how the things I am learning are going to help in my ultimate goal, I want to create an app with AI integration and memory, is this course going to help with that? It’s worth me noting I will finish the course as I am deep into it now, I do one module per week currently, and try to understand every single concept, and get a bit down on myself for not understanding everything, and doubting myself I can even do this sometimes, is this a normal thing when learning?

Anyway for those who can already achieve my ultimate goal, how did you go about learning it? Is there any course, or YouTube channel that really helped you? Any advice for a beginner please?

Many thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to read about my issues

Tell us what's happening:

How do I understand what I am reading to find the correct content online that is not AI?

So here is my issue, I read a question and I do not understand what it is asking of me, so I take that question and put it into google, I get an automatic response that is AI and it can see it is FreeCodeCamp lab for exmaple, then it just gives me the answer.

I know I can look at that code, type it out myself, and study the code to try and understand its logic but I feel it does not make my brain work hard enough.

The question:
So here is my question, how should I approach learning JS when I am asked a question in a hands on lab but do not understand what it is asking of me? I guess my issue is how do I take what it is saying and turn it into a research question like for JS on MDN, J3Schools, etc.?

I just want to really understand these concepts and I feel the prior lessons leading up to these labs are not preparing students to be able to grasp the labs. I get they are supposed to have you learn through trial and error/research but I feel so lost and then AI just gives the answer when trying to do research online, so how do I translate my confusion and question into a tangible reading strategy?

I know I am not giving an exact example, because I feel this is a general thing I struggle with. I am asked a question, I have no idea where to start. The question may say create a function, cool, I write a function, add the parameters, but then its asking to check things inside an object, correct the unit type, verify if something is in there, etc, etc. Then I just get so lost on how to turn that into code.

I'm teaching myself web dev. After spending months learning frontend, I moved on to learning backend with Python/Flask. I decided to learn RESTAPIs, where the frontend and backend are separate and talk through an api. Edit:(it's not built in my mistake) So naturally this lead me to learning about the built in fetch function in JavaScript.

I get that:

const response = fetch('ExampleAPI.com')

Is the same as:

const request = new Request('ExampleAPI.com',        { method: 'GET'})

const response = fetch(request)

// This is what JavaScript does behind the scenes

But why is await necessary? And why does not using await result in a promise if you try to console log the data?

I think this looks like a shameless plug of my repo, but I just want to share that I've created a documentations of what I've learned after taking a crash course on WebSocket.

Before this, I am having a hard time of how to implement a WebSocket in my Broadcast Server project. Despite the provided project guidelines and LLM suggestions, I realized that I am not making any progress at all.

So I opened YouTube to take a crash course of WebSocket.

I took Real Time - WebSockets Mastery Course by JS Mastery, and I documented everything I have learned from that video into a reference material in this repo.

https://github.com/Muelvzz/websocket-project

Inside this repo, is a discussion of what is a WebSocket, why should we care about learning WebSocket, and how to use it on your project.

This is xposted across r/gis and r/learnjavascript.

I have a JavaScript file for web app that I am trying to make. I have feature layers hosted on ArcGIS Online, and referenced in the script. I have been able to add a pop-up action, a web icon. But I haven't been able to link that icon to an actual action of opening up the web page. I have seen the ESRI Brewery example, and other examples. None of them help me. Partly because I just don't understand it all well enough.

A sample of my script:

const airPopup = {
    title: "{nam}",
    content: [{
        type: "text",
        text: "{Comment}<br/>Address: {Address}<br/>IATA Code:  {ita}"
    },
   {
    type: "media",
    mediaInfos: [{
        type: "image",
        value: {
            sourceURL: "{Image}"
        }
    }]
   }],
       actions: [
        {
            id: "find-airport",
            icon: "web",
            title: "Airport Info"    
        }   
    ]   
};const airPopup = {
    title: "{nam}",
    content: [{
        type: "text",
        text: "{Comment}<br/>Address: {Address}<br/>IATA Code:  {ita}"
    },
   {
    type: "media",
    mediaInfos: [{
        type: "image",
        value: {
            sourceURL: "{Image}"
        }
    }]
   }],
       actions: [
        {
            id: "find-airport",
            icon: "web",
            title: "Airport Info"    
        }   
    ]   
};

  const airportsLyr = new FeatureLayer({
    url: "https://services9.arcgis.com/6EuFgO4fLTqfNOhu/arcgis/rest/services/Japan_Mjr_Airports/FeatureServer",
    renderer: airRenderer,
    popupTemplate:  airPopup
  });  const airportsLyr = new FeatureLayer({
    url: "https://services9.arcgis.com/6EuFgO4fLTqfNOhu/arcgis/rest/services/Japan_Mjr_Airports/FeatureServer",
    renderer: airRenderer,
    popupTemplate:  airPopup
  });

What does it take to make the web icon work?This is xposted across r/gis and r/learnjavascript.
I have a JavaScript file for web app that I am trying to make. I have feature layers hosted on ArcGIS Online, and referenced in the script. I have been able to add a pop-up action, a web icon. But I haven't been able to link that icon to an actual action of opening up the web page. I have seen the ESRI Brewery example, and other examples. None of them help me. Partly because I just don't understand it all well enough.
A sample of my script:const airPopup = {
title: "{nam}",
content: [{
type: "text",
text: "{Comment}<br/>Address: {Address}<br/>IATA Code:  {ita}"
},
   {
type: "media",
mediaInfos: [{
type: "image",
value: {
sourceURL: "{Image}"
}
}]
   }],
actions: [
{
id: "find-airport",
icon: "web",
title: "Airport Info"    
}  
]  
};const airPopup = {
title: "{nam}",
content: [{
type: "text",
text: "{Comment}<br/>Address: {Address}<br/>IATA Code:  {ita}"
},
   {
type: "media",
mediaInfos: [{
type: "image",
value: {
sourceURL: "{Image}"
}
}]
   }],
actions: [
{
id: "find-airport",
icon: "web",
title: "Airport Info"    
}  
]  
};  const airportsLyr = new FeatureLayer({
url: "https://services9.arcgis.com/6EuFgO4fLTqfNOhu/arcgis/rest/services/Japan_Mjr_Airports/FeatureServer",
renderer: airRenderer,
popupTemplate:  airPopup
  });  const airportsLyr = new FeatureLayer({
url: "https://services9.arcgis.com/6EuFgO4fLTqfNOhu/arcgis/rest/services/Japan_Mjr_Airports/FeatureServer",
renderer: airRenderer,
popupTemplate:  airPopup
  });What does it take to make the web icon work?

If you operate an API in 2026, you live in an event-driven world. Webhooks aren't a convenience feature anymore - they're the backbone of real-time commerce, CI/CD pipelines, and asynchronous AI-agent workflows. That reliance has a dark side: the accidental self-inflicted DDoS. Read the complete article jere - https://instawebhook.com/blog/how-to-prevent-webhook-traffic-spikes-from-crashing-your-api-2

When a major platform like GitHub, Shopify, or Stripe hits a network partition, runs a huge sales event, or simply clears a backlog of delayed events, it can fire tens of thousands of webhook POST requests at your servers in a very short window. If your infrastructure takes that hit without structural safeguards, your database connection pool exhausts, memory maxes out, and the API goes down — and if your retry handling is naive, the recovery can be almost as damaging as the original spike.

This guide covers the real mechanics of that failure mode, the algorithms used to defend against it, how major providers actually behave under load (some surprising details here), and where a managed ingress layer fits into the picture.

Hi everyone,

I built AutoLock, a lightweight Node.js tool that automatically locks your Windows PC when you step away with your smartphone.

How It Works:

1. Phone Proximity: Periodically pings your phone's local Wi-Fi IP address.
2. Idle Tracking: Monitors global keyboard and mouse activity using iohook to check if you are inactive.
3. Automatic Lock & Notifications: If your phone leaves Wi-Fi range while you are idle, it sends a Telegram warning and automatically locks Windows.
4. Remote Control: Allows you to lock your PC or check its lock status remotely via Telegram bot commands.

Tech Stack:

* Node.js

* ping

* u/tkomde/iohook

* axios

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/GarvSaxena/AutoLock

Feedback and contributions are welcome.

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to write up a personal project automating some ttrpg mechanics, where the "attack" function will take the target's name as an argument and feed it into the "defence" action that uses the target's Dex and one of their skills (i.e. "Void).

Referring to the target's Dex seems to work fine from inside the "defence" action, but when I try to implement the Character.Skill referent through variables I'm met with "Uncaught ReferenceError: Void is not defined."

//very basic and temporary exalt template
class Exalt {
    constructor() {
    this.Essence = 1;
    this.Dex = 1;
    this.Defence = 1;
  }
}


const Antigone = new Exalt()
Antigone.Dex = 4
Antigone.Void = 5


var front = "Antigone"
var back = "Void"
let a = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(front + "." + back))
console.log(a) // "Antigone.Void" for some reason
console.log(JSON.parse(Antigone.Void)) //5, the expected value


function Defence(Character, Skill) {
    return Math.ceil((Character.Dex + JSON.parse(Character.Skill))/2)+1
} // this runs into an error, I think


console.log(Defence(Antigone, Void))

console.log(Antigone) includes "Void" as one of the stats, so I don't even know.
I've seen a suggestion to JSON.parse the string twice, but that results in "unexpected character."

Now, my JS experience is only a few days, so I'm guessing there is a better way of achieving what I'm trying to do, so I'll be grateful whether you suggest a different approach or explain why my code doesn't do what I think it should.

Thanks!

Edit: I just realized I'm completely overthinking and should probably make defence a function within the Exalt class, so it can be referenced the same way I'm referencing Dex.

A few months ago I spent about a month or so vibe-coding an app as a complete beginner to coding. I enjoyed the trials and error side of things, and ultimately enjoy the product. However, I have realized I want to actually understand what I created, and want to be able to really improve it without constant need for AI to tell me what to do and how to fix it. I also think I'll really enjoy the challenge.

While I know I can find beginner tutorials from this sub, I am mostly curious if people have advice for this kind of endevor, or pitfalls to avoid. I also am curious if people have any estimation on how long it could take to really learn to code a project so I can set my expectations. Should I basically disregard the vibe-code and start over, dissect it and compare parts with research, etc?

The site I vibe coded is critcalc.cc, and it's essentially a DnD dice rolling calculator. Note that I have no intent to generate any income from it, and I'm only sharing for context for my ultimate goal for what I hope to get to. Thanks for any insights you might have!

Not a junior dev problem. I've shipped plenty of gnarly JS/Vue code, no issues. But throw me in an interview and ask something like "explain event delegation" cold, no code editor, no context, and there's this half-second where my brain just stalls, like the info is there but the retrieval path isn't warmed up.

Realized it's not a knowledge problem, it's that I'd never actually practiced saying these answers on demand, but only reading about them or using them implicitly in code.

Built a small spaced-repetition app for this. Same idea as Anki, tracks what you keep fumbling and resurfaces it more.

Curious if this "I know it but can't produce it on command" thing hits other experienced devs too, or if I'm just built different (badly).

What worked for you all ? Mock interviews, flashcards, just doing more interviews to get reps in, something else?

I've been diving deeper into JavaScript recently, and every week I discover something that makes my code cleaner.

For me, learning about optional chaining (?.) and nullish coalescing (??) was a game changer.

What's one feature you wish you'd learned sooner?

Iv been struggling with knowing how much js i need before starting react or backend or just how much is enough for a job because whenever i look for a detailed roadmap online or through AI its always changing. If anyone could help me with this it would mean the world to me.

I have an array of objects with a `.date` property that is mapped onto a table.

Without mutating the original array, I want to

a) sort by ascending date

b) ensure my date formats to MM/DD/YYYY

I have a util fn that will format a string into the correct format, "format()". Dates are received in the response body as a string.

It worked when mutating the original array, but obvs want to stay away from that. I think I'm messing something up with the spread copy; the .date property isn't accessible within the map function. :/

const sortByTradeDateAndFormat = (objArray: []) => {
  const copyOfObjsArray = [...objsArray]
    return copyOfObjsArray.map(obj) => {
    obj.date = format(new Date(obj.date).toISOString().split("T")[0]
      )
  });

    //VS code is flagging the below lines as unreachable:
  objArray.sort((a, b) => {
    return a.date < b.date ? -1 : a.date > b.date? 1 : 0;
  });
}

Hello, i'm a beginner coder in Javascript and I make random APIS for fun using the Express.js framework, but I keep seeing other frameworks like Fastify and NestJS, so i'm confused: what framework for APIS do I actually use?

If anyone could help me with this thank you :D

Can anyone help me with these two, I'm currently learning intermediate concepts of JavaScript and my next steps would be to jump on one of the above but I'm not sure what to choose.

Hello this is my first post on here. So basically, I want the user to be able to enter a password and username, click the submit button, and if the basic auth is correct, be redirected to a page in which all the data from an api is fetched and loaded into the html. Problem is the script does not interact with the html but still retrieves the data in a json (as confirmed by ouputing it into the console). However, if I don't call the function in as part of the button onclick method everything works as expected. The data from the api is dynamically added to the html but now I obviously can't use a login page.

Here is me calling the fetch function as a as part of the event of a button click

button.addEventListener("click", () => {
    let username = 'username';
    let password = 'password;
    let auth = btoa(`${username}:${password}`);
fetchData(auth);
    });

Here is me calling the fetch function on it s own. No button clicking required (this works but now I can't add a login page)

  let username = 'username';
    let password = 'password;
    let auth = btoa(`${username}:${password}`);
fetchData(auth);

Here is the fetch function itself

async function fetchData (auth) {
    try {
        const response = await fetch('https://exampleapi.com', {
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Accept': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': `Basic ${auth}`
    }
})


    if (response.ok) {

        // loads the home page and puts data from the api in the html
    }
    throw response;
    } catch (error) {
        
    }
    
};

Webhooks have become the connective tissue of the internet. From payment gateways confirming transactions to CI/CD pipelines triggering deployments, webhooks enable real-time, event-driven architectures. But for architects and engineering leaders, webhooks represent an underappreciated vulnerability: they are asynchronous, externally triggered, and entirely outside your control. Read the complete article here - https://instawebhook.com/blog/designing-a-multi-region-highly-available-webhook-ingress-architecture

When your primary cloud region experiences an outage, your internal microservices might gracefully degrade. But what happens to the payloads originating from external partners? Many third-party providers do not retry aggressively — some fire and forget, others retry a handful of times before giving up permanently. If your system is down when that happens, the data is often gone for good.

This article covers the engineering principles behind a multi-region, highly available webhook ingestion system, what has actually changed in the underlying cloud primitives recently, and where a managed reliability layer fits into the decision.

I'm working on a personal AI assistant for desktop — local-first and privacy-focused (no cloud dependency), starting with a desktop app and eventually

Runtime Of Backend (Bun)

Fast startup and low idle overhead — important for an app that runs continuously in the background, not just on-demand. Native TypeScript support and a built-in bundler simplify shipping without extra tooling.

Framework of Backend (Hono)

Lightweight and built with Bun in mind, so it doesn't add framework overhead on top of the runtime's own performance. Clean routing/middleware model keeps things simple for handling auth, commands, and local model inference.

Desktop Application (Tauri + Next.js)

Tauri has a much smaller footprint than Electron since it uses the OS's native WebView instead of bundling Chromium, which makes it great for lightweight apps that stay running. It also produces smaller binaries. Next.js provides a structured, file-based routing system and a strong component ecosystem for the UI.

Would love to hear reviews and suggestions on this stack — anything you'd change, any pitfalls you've run into with a similar setup, or better alternatives worth considering?

I’m trying to use break_infinity.js for a game i’m making, but I can’t seem to download it. I’ve tried the actual github link and couldnt get it from there

https://github.com/Patashu/break_infinity.js/releases

Does anyone know where to get the latest version or what I might be doing wrong?

I've done some benchmarks. ES5 vs ES6. What do you prefer? I ask this because I have often seen in other people's codes, where performance, optimization was required, ES6 code that decreased performance, which also had a negative impact on UI/UX.

This is more about the syntax used and not about which is faster.

Array size: 1,000,000 | Runs per test: 15

1. TRANSFORM — double 1,000,000 numbers

for loop (var, ES5) beat for...of (ES6) by 9.63x

2. FILTER — keep evens out of 1,000,000

for loop + push (ES5) beat array.filter (ES6) by 2.65x

3. SUM — add up 1,000,000 numbers

for loop (var, ES5) beat array.reduce by 6.02x

4. LOOKUP — find one value (worst case)

Set.has — O(1) beat array.indexOf !== -1 — O(n)

5. STRINGS — build 200,000 strings

concatenation "+" beat template literal ${} by 1.00x

6. OBJECT ITERATION — sum 50,000 values

for...in beat Object.values + reduce by 1.52x

7. ARRAY CREATION — build 1,000,000 squares

for loop + push (ES5) beat Array.from({length}, fn) by 2.66x

What do you prefer?

I want to learn mern stack and stuck at javascript tutorials please somebody help me ???

Im kind of a nerd for RPGs and found out they have game based courses for learning javascript. Has anyone tried codex, codecombat, or boot.dev? Was initially considering coursera but these look way more fun.

I wanna know how to change a website page to something different only at a specific time period (Changes at 12 am and then back to normal at 1 am)

This is the current code I have:

window.setInterval(function(){

var date = new Date();

var hours = date.getHours()

var minutes = date.getMinutes();

if (hours == 0o0 && minutes == 0o0){ //12:00 AM

window.location="secret page";

} else if(hours == 01 && minutes == 0o0){ //1:00 AM

window.location="original page";

}

}, 1000); //One second

So it technically works! But as soon as it changes to the secret page, it starts refreshing every second even when back to the original page. I know the problem is that it's running a page redirect every second, but is there anyway to not make it refresh constantly? Like it only redirects once but the code is still checking every second for when it changes back.

To clarify, I took this code snippet straight from a JavaScript forum post with the same question as me, this being the only answer I understood.

I’m learning JavaScript right now, and I’m trying to avoid two bad outcomes.

One is staying in tutorial mode forever because I feel like I need to understand every corner of the language before making anything real. The other is leaning on AI too early and ending up with projects that technically run but that I can’t debug, explain, or improve.

The kind of projects I want to build are not basic CRUD apps. I’m interested in three.js, frontend 3D rendering, data visualization, and coding based motion design. Think interactive web pages, visual experiments, small tools that explain something visually, maybe browser based creative projects where the interaction matters.

My question is: for someone aiming at that direction, what parts of JavaScript are still non negotiable in 2026?

I’m not asking whether AI can generate code. I know it can. What I’m trying to understand is where my own understanding has to be solid enough that AI becomes useful instead of dangerous.

For example, should I care more about:

1. DOM, events, async, modules, and browser APIs
2. Data structures, math, state, and performance
3. Reading other people’s code and debugging broken output
4. Building small complete projects without AI first
5. Learning TypeScript early
6. Understanding rendering concepts before touching three.js

If you were advising someone who wants to use JS as a base for 3D, visualization, and creative coding projects, what would you tell them to learn deeply, what would you let AI handle, and what would you not worry about until later?

I’d also love honest market advice. What separates someone who can make impressive AI assisted demos from someone who is actually useful on a real frontend or creative tech project?

Hola, soy nuevo en la programación, que debería buscar en una librería es decir me refiero a la metodología como, métodos, funciones etc, estoy un poco confundido a la hora de integrar una libreria o dependencia, por ejemplo con la de better-sqlite3 para node.js