We’re using a small performance optimization in our code bases: caching computation results in local variables. Saving results in a local variable is borrowed from the memoization technique. Memoizing values improves the performance of function execution by storing the results and reusing them for a function call. This tutorial …

When writing code, you eventually want or need to change existing implementation. Changing existing code can have side effects for the application and you may need to refactor parts of the project which you didn’t plan to touch. Yet, it’s necessary to move forward and sunset old versions …

In the previous Future Studio tutorial, we looked into the details of what’s Symbol.iterator in JavaScript. Symbol.iterator is a global constant for the @@iterator property used by JavaScript’s iteration protocol. When looping through an iterable, for example, an array, JavaScript looks for the @@iterator property that …

Template literates in JavaScript are delimited with backticks and allow you to create string interpolation and multi-line strings. A multi-line string with template literals is convenient because you can add words and line breaks without concatenating strings using a + across lines. A downside of multi-line strings in template literals: it …

JavaScript has support for iteration protocols. These iteration protocols aren’t built-in implementations, but protocols outlining the convention that an implementation needs to follow. The Iteration protocol allows custom JavaScript objects to provide iteration behavior, for example how they provide values when looping over them in a for…of loop. …

In some situations, you must ensure that a given value is of a certain type. For example, you may have an options object supporting different properties. Some of them are expected to be numbers. You’re validating the input values and ensuring the given values are numbers and values in …

We’re working on the new Future Studio website. We migrated data to MySQL and used TINYINT(1) columns to store boolean values. An ORM reads data from MySQL and we added convenience methods on models to determine whether a given value is true or false. We’re translating the …

We’re working on the new Future Studio website. We’re migrating data from the previously used document database RethinkDB to MySQL. RethinkDB allowed us to store boolean values. MySQL stores boolean values as TINYINT(1). During the data migration from RethinkDB to MySQL we transferred all boolean values to …