Whether you’re building UI components, calling APIs, or writing some utility functions, it’s quite common to deal with optional function arguments. Traditionally, you’d fall back on if statements or logical ORs to assign default values. But let’s be honest, that can lead to subtle bugs. How often have you written...

Writing asynchronous code in JavaScript used to come with a limitation: the await keyword could only be used inside an async function. That changed when ES2022 introduced top-level await, a modern ES module feature that enables new patterns for asynchronous code at the module level. What’s top-level await? Traditionally await...

Let me know if this sounds familiar: you’re deep into debugging or trying to access a deeply nested property in a JavaScript object. Suddenly you see this classic error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'x' of undefined This is a common pain point, especially when working with API responses, optional fields,...