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JavaScript arrow functions and context

By Eynar Roshev | February 5, 2019

Arrow functions have been introduced in the JavaScript ES2015 specification of the language, and provide another more concise way of defining functions. I assume they have been inspired by the CoffeeScript transpiler project. Nowadays, CoffeeScript is not widely used because new features get adopted quite fast into the core language itself, many of which have…

SketchPad release

By Eynar Roshev | January 28, 2019

SketchPad is a project I’ve done to learn the HTML5 <canvas> element and to use it to create something that is usable. As a result is a minimal drawing tool that is able to export the drawn image to a file on the user’s computer. From a programming point of view, the application is extensible, utilising JavaScript’s…