Ankita Masand

A Software engineer trying to make sense of every line of code she writes, Ankita is a JavaScript enthusiast and adores its weird parts. She’s also an obsessed developer, highly focused on the performance of web applications. When she’s not writing JavaScript, you’ll find her engaged in understanding the intricacies of deep neural networks.

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Design Patterns in JavaScript

Design patterns are documented solutions to commonly occurring problems in software engineering. Engineers don’t have to bang their heads on the problems that someone else has already solved.

by Ankita Masand
November 07, 2019 15 min read Share
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The Journey of JavaScript From Downloading Scripts to Execution – Part III

In this article, you'll learn how JavaScript is executed in the browser. JavaScript is designed to be operated as a single-threaded language, yet we can execute asynchronous JavaScript code in the browser without blocking the main thread. This article aims to provide a detailed explanation of the underlying tools used by the browser to execute JavaScript code.

by Ankita Masand
June 18, 2019 13 min read Share
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What's New in JavaScript?

A lot of cool and interesting features are added in the JavaScript specifications every year. We’ll take a comprehensive look at the new features in JavaScript and their respective browser support.

by Ankita Masand
June 10, 2019 16 min read Share
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The Journey of JavaScript: from Downloading Scripts to Execution - Part II

In this article, you'll learn how JavaScript engines have evolved from a mere interpreter to a performant and efficient engine that produces highly optimized machine code, starting with the underlying components in the V8 JavaScript engine and including performance optimization techniques.

by Ankita Masand
May 23, 2019 18 min read Share
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The Journey of JavaScript: from Downloading Scripts to Execution - Part I

This article will help you understand the internals of JavaScript - even the weird parts. Every line of code that you write in JavaScript will make complete sense once you know how it has been interpreted by the underlying engine. You'll learn multiple ways of downloading scripts based on the use case, and how the parser generates an Abstract Syntax Tree and its heuristics while parsing the code. Let's dive deep into the internals of JavaScript engines - starting from downloading scripts.

by Ankita Masand
February 24, 2019 16 min read Share