Performant JavaScript

If you need to share functionality across instances of a class, it is massively more performant to share functionality via prototypes.

This was a huge takeaway from yesterday’s lecture by @sgharms at Dev Bootcamp on inefficient versus efficient method sharing in JavaScript.

Using JS prototype functions to share functionality amongst instances of a class is significantly more performant and uses less memory than encapsulating shared methods in the constructor function.

Who knew.

 
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Rails Workflow

Today, I made a couple (tiny) Rails apps. Granted, Rails generators handled a lot of the black magic; but I was able to establish a simple workflow to get up and running quickly, and I would like to share it with you. Do the following in... Continue →