JavaScript programming in an editor such as Visual Studio Code typically involves a lot of manual text editing, with the occasional copy-paste keyboard shortcuts or multi-cursor changes. Code assists such as refactorings, code actions, and quick fixes are another tool in this repertoire. You can use code assists to make…

From code snippets, git versions to formatting, refactoring to REST APIs, database — we’ve got it all in one extension — Visual Studio Code is a great code editor that comes with JavaScript and TypeScript features like basic refactoring out of the box. However, its true strength is an outstanding extension marketplace. There are extensions for almost anything you might want to do in an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and they…

Top-level await, RegExp, and more — JavaScript evolves quickly. In 2021, several proposals have moved to Stage 4 of the TC39 process and will be included in ES2022. They add the following features to JavaScript: Classes and Instances Private instance fields, methods, and accessors Existence checks for private fields Public static class fields Private static class fields and methods …

Strategies to reflect on work — A team retrospective is a meeting at the end of a sprint, project, or milestone where the team reflects on the past work cycle and identifies improvements. It involves celebrating achievements to raise the team spirit, gathering feedback on challenges, and planning how to execute better in upcoming sprints or…

Have you ever wondered how a chatbot that can answer questions about a PDF works? In this blog post, we’ll build a console app capable of searching and understanding PDF content to answer questions using Node.js, OpenAI, and ModelFusion. …

If you’re a JavaScript or TypeScript developer, you’ve likely noticed the skyrocketing interest in building AI applications, especially since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. With AI on the rise, many are exploring new and creative ways to integrate models into applications, chatbots, and agents. …

Agree so much with this. I've been through using langchain, using my own small snippets in various projects, writing an agent framework, and now I've concluded that we need frameworks/library that let us stay in full control of the control flow and the prompts, so I've started ai-utils.js I just added tool support and would be curious what you think about my approach to this: https://ai-utils.dev/guide/tools

Rubberduck is an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that adds a chat interface. You can edit code, get explanations, generate tests, and diagnose errors. Rubberduck lets you use your own OpenAI API key and call the OpenAI API directly, so your code is only seen by you and OpenAI. Your…

As a JavaScript developer, you know how challenging it can be to work with existing codebases. Often, the code is poorly documented, making it difficult to understand what it does and how it works. …