All package managers have many downsides. You just have to pick which you can live with. History npm started out managing node.js modules (that’s why packages go into node_modules by default), but it works for the front-end too when combined with Browserify or webpack. Bower is created solely for the front-end and is optimized with … Read more
There are numerous reasons why disabling the back button will not really work. Your best bet is to warn the user: This page does list a number of ways you could try to disable the back button, but none are guaranteed: http://www.irt.org/script/311.htm
Include ‘use strict’; as the first statement in a wrapping function, so it only affects that function. This prevents problems when concatenating scripts that aren’t strict. See Douglas Crockford’s latest blog post Strict Mode Is Coming To Town. Example from that post: Update: In case you don’t want to wrap in immediate function (e.g. it … Read more
It is because you are not always passing the callback into that method.
It seems that <TouchableHighlight> must have exactly one child. The docs say that it supports only one child and more than one must be wrapped in a <View>, but not that it must have at least (and most) one child. I just wanted to have a plain coloured button with no text/image, so I didn’t … Read more
A function cannot be called unless it was defined in the same file or one loaded before the attempt to call it. A function cannot be called unless it is in the same or greater scope then the one trying to call it. You declare function fn1 in first.js, and then in second you can … Read more
Anyone know of a good way to write a jQuery extension to handle query string parameters? I basically want to extend the jQuery magic ($) function so I can do something like this: Which would give me the value “test” in the following URL: http://www.example.com/index.php?search=test. I’ve seen a lot of functions that can do this … Read more
You should do it like this: Or if you want to go one lever deeper: But in that case the navigation object should be defined. Although it is possible to give a default value for destructuring objects. E.g. Now navigation will be an empty object if it’s undefined.
I have some code specific to sorting tables. Since the code is common in most pages I want to make a JS file which will have the code and all the pages using it can reference it from there. Problem is: How do I add jQuery, and table sorter plugin into that .js file? I … Read more
You can’t do this using forms the normal way. Instead, you want to use AJAX. A sample function that will submit the data and alert the page response.