When I joined the Avenue Code team as an intern, I was introduced to mentoring: a guidance system where seasoned developers share their knowledge, skills, and experience to assist their colleagues toward successful development. In this post, I will talk about my experience as a mentee, as well as what I learned along the way.

You have probably heard of terms like “V8,” “event loop,” “call stack,” and “callback queue.” In this post, we are going to examine what these terms mean, how they relate to one another, and, more generally, how JavaScript works. Javascript is a powerful language that has stood the test of time and continues to gain popularity. By cultivating a strong understanding of its core concepts, you'll be able to write better code and better apps.

If you work with Agile development, you probably know how difficult it is to find the right project pace so that your software engineering team and UX design team can work together to deliver software increments.

So, you've read the first article (if you haven't, click here http://blog.avenuecode.com/angular-2-should-i-learn-it),and you’re now wondering what the next step is. You've created your own classes, fiddled with Angular components, and learned how to fetch data using services.

Creating HTML emails is hard — much more difficult than creating a web page in HTML.  Bootstrap and Foundation spoil front-end developers.  Slap a couple classes in your code and you can have a beautiful, or at least beautifully rendered, adaptive/responsive site in nearly every browser.  Not so with email.  Many email clients strip external CSS, leaving only inline styles.  Some email clients render only a small subset of CSS.  And of course, JavaScript is out of the question.

Should I learn Angular 2+?  You may have asked yourself this question several times, but you've probably stayed on the safe side, and most likely stuck to your preferred framework or plain vanilla javascript and ES6. Now that the frameworks you’ve been hearing about have finally been released and are heavily used by the community, you may be seriously debating whether you should switch over to MEA(2+)N, React + Relay + GraphQL, or Vue.js.

Deriving information from data can be a big challenge. In this post, we will learn how to create a simple data visualization using d3.js. Moreover, we will try to understand the basic concepts under this amazing library as well as go through a brief overview of javascript, css, and svg.