JavaScript
James Hibbard, May 01
How to Write Shell Scripts with JavaScript
JavaScript is well suited to desktop scripting tasks. James Hibbard looks at how you can leverage JavaScript's power to write your own shell scripts.
JavaScript
Tim Severien, Apr 24
Patterns for Object Inheritance in JavaScript ES2015
Tim Severien looks at different possibilities for code reuse with ES2015 classes, exploring various ways of implementing multiple inheritance in ES6.
2 COMMENTs
Web
Maria Antonietta Perna, Apr 20
Five Techniques to Lazy Load Images for Website Performance
Maria Antonietta Perna highlights the benefits of lazy loading images on websites and shows five approaches to implement lazy loading for your website.
1 COMMENT
HTML & CSS
Jelena Jovanovic, Apr 19
Quick Tip: How to Build Your Custom Theme for Telescope Nova
In this quick tip, Jelena Jovanovic shows how to customize the Telescope Nova theme, both markup and stylesheet with these easy-to-follow steps.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
Jani Hartikainen, Apr 18
JavaScript Testing Tool Showdown: Sinon.js vs testdouble.js
Jani Hartikainen looks at testdouble.js (a new mocking library with a streamlined API) and puts it head-to-head with Sinon.js, the JS test double incumbent.
1 COMMENT
JavaScript
Nilson Jacques, Apr 17
Editorial: To Benchmark, or Not to Benchmark?
In this week's editorial, Nilson Jacques asks whether JS benchmark results are all they're cracked up to be, and should we be bothered about speed anyway?
1 COMMENT
JavaScript
Steve Kinney, Apr 13
Tips and Tricks for Debugging Electron Applications
Steve Kinney introduces some tips & tricks for debugging Electron applications and shows how you can use Visual Code to set breakpoints in the main process.
JavaScript
Olayinka Omole, Apr 12
Fetching Data from a Third-Party API with Vue.js and Axios
Learn to build data-driven apps with Vue 2. Olayinka Omole creates a simple client to pull news stories from the New York Times API with the Axios library.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
James Kolce, Apr 11
Create Your Own Yeoman-Style Scaffolding Tool with Caporal.js
James Kolce shows you how to use Caporal.js — a framework for building command line apps with Node.js — to create your own project scaffolding generator.
4 COMMENTs
HTML & CSS
Maria Antonietta Perna, Apr 11
Make Your Website Interactive and Fun with Velocity.js (No jQuery)
Maria Antonietta Perna introduces Velocity JS, a super featured JavaScript library for DOM animation, and shows how to use it without jQuery dependency.
Mobile
Charles Muzonzini, Apr 11
5 Ionic Framework App Development Tips and Tricks
Patrick Catanzariti highlights 5 tips and tricks he has gathered from his development work with the Ionic framework.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
James Wright, Apr 10
Learning JavaScript Test-Driven Development by Example
James Wright introduces test-driven development and walks through creating and refactoring a simple form validation library, step-by-step, as an example.
Mobile
Patrick Catanzariti, Apr 10
Five Simple Ways to Build Artificial Intelligence in 2017
Patrick Catanzariti looks at APIs and services which enable artificial intelligence capable of everything from personal assistants to image recognition.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
Ado Kukic, Apr 06
Easily Migrate Your Existing Users to Auth0
Learn how to painlessly migrate your existing users to Auth0 without requiring password resets.
JavaScript
Tania Rascia, Apr 05
Back to Basics: JavaScript Operators, Conditionals & Functions
Get a solid understanding of the language from first principles, as Tania Rascia explains the basics of JavaScript operators, conditionals and functions.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
James Hibbard, Apr 03
How Do You Keep Your JavaScript Dependencies Up-to-date?
A recent report indicated that outdated JavaScript dependencies on the web could pose a bigger problem than previously thought. James Hibbard takes a look.
JavaScript
Nilson Jacques, Mar 30
Writing Better JavaScript with Flow
In this article Nilson Jacques introduces you to Flow, its main features, & how to integrate it into your project to discover bugs in your JavaScript code.
JavaScript
Pavels Jelisejevs, Mar 29
Automated Accessibility Checking with aXe
Pavels Jelisjevs looks at aXe, a JS library that scans your website for a11y issues. Learn how to do automated accessibility checking via your test runner.
JavaScript
Sebastian Seitz, Mar 28
The Basics of DOM Manipulation in Vanilla JavaScript (No jQuery)
Sebastian Seitz gives you a crash course in DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript, abstracting the more verbose parts into a set of helper functions.
JavaScript
Chris Lienert, Mar 27
How to Choose the Right Front-end Framework for Your Company
Chris Lienert talks about selecting the right front-end framework for his company and compares the pros and cons of Angular 2, Aurelia, Vue.js and React.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
Manuel Matuzovic, Mar 23
Writing JavaScript with Accessibility in Mind
Don't let accessibility be an afterthought! Join Manuel Matuzovic for some easy-to-implement tips and tricks to improve users interactions with your site.
2 COMMENTs
JavaScript
Joe Zimmerman, Mar 22
Simplifying Asynchronous Coding with Async Functions
Joe Zimmermann takes a look at async functions (which are coming our way in ES2017) and how we might use them today to avoid the callback pyramid of doom.
JavaScript
Craig Buckler, Mar 21
Retrofit Your Website as a Progressive Web App
Provide a great mobile experience without building native apps. Craig Buckler walks you through converting an existing site to a Progressive Web App.
HTML & CSS
Gajendar Singh, Mar 21
How You Can Use HTML5 Custom Data Attributes and Why
Gajendar Singh walks you through HTML5 custom data attributes, why they're useful, how to style them with CSS and manipulate them with JavaScript and jQuery