What are your views on Functional Reactive Programming and Cycle.js?

Function Declaration Function Declaration is creating a named function function foo ( ) { return "Hello" ; } Function Expression A Function Expression defines a function as a part of a larger expression syntax. Functions defined via Functions Expressions can be named or anonymous. //anonymous function expression var foo = function ( ) { return "foo" ; } //named function expression var bar = function bar ( ) { return "bar" ; } // named function expression using arrow functions var baz = () => { return "baz" }

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I learned a lot about unit testing in Reactjs from this article by @vvo.

It can certainly be done with JavaScript. For example check this out. It has several examples where they animate the favicon to represent various states.

Saw it for the first time. Looks interesting, thanks for introducing this here.

Yes, I think Universal/isomorphic apps will play a huge role in web app development. The key reason is that no body wants to miss SEO and hence server-side rendering is required, but we also want our apps to be superfast which can be achieved via client-side rendering. So if Universal apps offer both, why not roll with it! :)

Flux doesn't make any assumptions regarding how you talk to your backend server/apis. You can use plain XHRs, jQuery $.ajax , fetch etc - basically anything you like.

Novice here.. How does Aurelia stack up against Angular and React? In other words, why should one use Aurelia to build apps instead of something like React? Thanks in advance.