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• Don't let Hoisting Put Your Variables Up For Grabs

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  JavaScript has a curious behavior if you're coming from another programming language. (Okay, JavaScript has a lot of curious behaviors regardless of whether you're coming from another language.) In particular, there's a curios behavior around the scope of variable declarations.

• Sticky Search Fields

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  If you've ever visited the Lowe's web site and performed a search, you may have noticed the site remembers your last search and pre-populates the search box with your last search string. How is this accomplished? It's a simple use of the browser's localStorage object.

• Repackaging XMLHttpRequest

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  The JavaScript fetch API has been around for a few years now, but a couple of browsers (Safari and iOS Safari, for example) have only supported it for a little over a year now. Prior to fetch, we used XMLHttpRequest to request data in JavaScript. If you're a bit late to the game because you're still supporting some of those older browser versions, here's a step-by-step guide for how XMLHttpRequest can be repackaged into the fetch API.

• Running Through Arrays

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  If you're new to JavaScript (or it's been a while since you looked at array iteration in JavaScript), you probably want to understand all the options that are available to you.

• Getting Started

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  "I want to become a web/mobile developer/designer. What can I do to get started?"

  Here are a few suggestions...

• Working with Forms in Two Functions

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  Interacting with forms - it's a common need in JavaScript apps. You need to gather information from the form when it's submitted; you need to initialize a form when it's first displayed to the user. Here's a simple form...

• The (Proto)Typical JavaScript Function

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  We've seen that constructor functions can be used to initialize JavaScript objects in a consistent manner. The constructor can be used to ensure that an object is always initialized with a known set of properties and default values for those properties. But it's also possible to assign functions to object properties from within a constructor function.

• Constructing Constructor Functions

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  When you are first learning JavaScript, you will be introduced to two ubiquitous language features: functions and objects. As you begin to experiment with creating objects, you may find it useful to implement a simple function to create commonly used object types. For instance, here's a function that will create an instance of a photo object...

• Two Quick Steps to JavaScript Events

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  If you're just starting out with JavaScript and want to respond to an event on the page, you can keep these two simple steps in mind.