The Notepad++ editor is the Swiss Army knife of text editing. With hundreds of plugins, the tool can be configured as an editor to almost any development workflow. In the previous post, we reviewed how to add comments to a JSON configuration file. We will now create a custom editor that supports those comments and the custom configuration keywords.
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Due to its tight coupling and interoperability with JavaScript, JSON has become the standard data transfer format for most JavaScript and Node.js applications. As opposed to its primary competitor format XML, JSON is much more compact and efficient for data transfer, and has a direct one-to-one mapping with the memory structures in the code. What JSON doesn’t enable, however, are comments in the JSON files.
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One of the enticing attributes of Node.js development is the high level of flexibility offered by the language. Whereas other web application frameworks often have more stringent and developed patterns for development tasks, Node is more of a Wild West, where the recommended implementation can be anyone’s game. One of those open-ended tasks is passing arrays through the Querystring.
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The lazy-loaded data grid has been a key feature of desktop applications, and is slowly making its way into web applications. Lazy-loading enables clients to view large amounts of data by initially loading only a small portion of the results. As the client scrolls toward the bottom of the screen, the next set of data is automatically loaded from the server.
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The growing popularity of AJAX and jQuery has significantly increased the use of anonymous functions in client-side JavaScript code. Although anonymous functions provide a very convenient way to decrease the amount of code necessary in an app, their prevalence and necessity may portend to structural deficiencies in either the language or development tools.
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