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How To Convert Text to Speech With JavaScript

Convert text to speech easily with the Web Speech API.

3 min readOct 25, 2022

Getting Started with the JavaScript URL Object

If you’ve been a developer for some time you will have undoubtedly worked with URLs before. It’s funny and frustrating at the same time how such a simple thing as URL manipulation can become so messy and prone to errors. In this article, I want to take a deep dive into the JavaScript URL object....

2 min readSep 26, 2022•Wesley Smits

7 Reasons Why TypeScript is Better Than Vanilla JavaScript

Before I used TypeScript on actual projects I used to think it was a waste of time. I thought it would cost a lot of effort to document a type on every variable and function and make custom types and interfaces and more for marginal benefits to my code. Little did I know that I...

6 min readSep 19, 2022•Wesley Smits

How to Use the FormData Object

The JavaScript FormData interface gives us a way to create an object of key-value pairs representing form fields and their values. It uses the same format a form would use if the encoding type were set to “multipart/form-data”. This makes it easy to format form data before sending it alon

3 min readSep 9, 2022•Wesley Smits

How to Use The Native JavaScript Share API

The native Web Share API lets you allow users to share text, links, and files to other apps installed on the device in the same way as platform-specific apps. Let’s take a look at how to use this new feature.

3 min readSep 5, 2022•Wesley Smits

How To Publish Your First NPM Package in Just 15 Minutes

Every developer has most likely used NPM packages at some point in their projects. But if you’ve never published your own package before it might seem like some scary, unknown, or complex thing. Let’s create a simple package and publish it to the NPM registry. In order to publish a package to NPM yo

5 min readOct 24, 2021•Wesley Smits

How to Build a Simple Web Calculator

Building a calculator is a great project when you’re still learning about JavaScript/TypeScript. In this tutorial, you will be taken through the HTML, CSS, and TypeScript behind the calculator. This project will be built without a JavaScript framework and will be using a TypeScript starter project f

6 min readOct 18, 2021•Wesley Smits