Nicholas Cassleman

Every year, the developers at Yext are given the opportunity to attend a workshop, class, or conference related to computer technology through our Learning is Good program. This year, superstar coworker Avneesh Sarwate

Closures are an important topic in JavaScript that cause developers a disproportionate amount of worry. If you’ve written more than a little JavaScript, you’ve probably created a closure without realizing. Does this look

In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas Crockford explains that JavaScript, like most languages, contains a mix of good parts and bad ones. Logically, he identifies that superior code adopts the language’s strengths and

Like the Greek hero Ajax, there are many triumphs and failures that our AJAX requests incur at Yext. Because a single AJAX call contains many diverse parts, it can be difficult to debug.

As an untyped language, JavaScript necessitates dynamic type checking. To strictly enforce type for every variable would hamper much of the language’s power, but when necessary, understanding the different ways to check type