In case you have been living under a rock, here's a catch-up. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an interactive movie released on Netflix on December 28th, 2018.
In essence, it's the same as interactive movies/video games like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and many, many others.
Dragon's Lair, an arcade game from the 80's
The mechanic is the following: you see
Today, the world of JavaScript development is overcrowded with libraries and frameworks, in front-end, mobile and full-stack.
The reason of why there so many libraries and frameworks in JavaScript is debatable. It could be because:
A week ago or so I was trying to explain what JavaScript is to my mother. She's a 56-year-old lawyer, so I try to keep my concepts as basic as possible.
The story usually goes like this: "JavaScript was that shy person in the corner that no one was very fond of. Some years pass and that person got some
JavaScript libraries appear on a daily basis, and I think it is almost impossible to catch up.
For this article, I'll stick to libraries and plug-ins and leave full frameworks for some other time. These are libraries that I have personally used in my developments.
DateTime objects are always hell. Your application has one specification, the user's OS
Using global variables in JavaScript is not commonly considered a good practice.
Besides these constraints, in web development, every user has access to the Window (or global) object. By putting variables on the global scope, you give any user the ability to see or change your variables.
Well, if using globals is necessary in your