Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss.

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code. Promises are a central mechanism for ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

It would be great if you could call Blazor C# methods from your JavaScript code. Right now, that's not quite possible: Simply calling Blazor C# from JavaScript won't work (you'll get a message about a ...

Some call it magic -- the ability to make objects appear suddenly out of nowhere. You can create this kind of magic on your website using a few lines of JavaScript ...