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In this post, we're going to learn how to create a music player using some of the new features in React 16.

Jack Franklin describes a set of tips and best practices for creating and organizing React applications in a scalable way.

An excerpt from Azat Mardan's "React Quickly" book, which explains how to work with forms in React and the concept of controlled components.

Are you an Angular dev looking to get started with React? If so, then join Mark Brown for a guided tour of the differences and similarities between the two.

Jack Franklin takes a look at Higher Order Components, a design pattern that helps keep your React applications tidy, well structured and easy to maintain.

Chris Laughlin takes a look at some of the options for applying CSS styles to React components, and introduces the styled-components library.

Eric Greene of the Microsoft Developer Network teaches the fundamentals of working with data in React apps.

Create React App is a CLI tool from Facebook that allows you to generate a new React project and use a pre-configured Webpack build for development.

React eases the development of snappy, event-driven user interfaces that are fast at responding to state changes. This is particuarly important considering users expect web apps to feel smooth and seamless like native apps. In this article, you'll learn about what React is good at and what makes it work. This should provide you with the context required to decide if this library could be a good fit for your next project, and whether you should learn React.

Many people try learning JavaScript and then give up. Yaphi Berhanu looks at 9 common mistakes and gives you tips to overcome them and master JavaScript!

jQuery Form Wizard is a jQuery plugin for creating form wizard or form flow without refreshing your page or webpage. We have listed 6 of them in this post.

Do you need to chart date or time-based data? Roman Lubushkin takes a look at AnyStock, a JavaScript stock and financial charting library from AnyChart.

Maria Antonietta Perna gives you an overview of GreenSock plugins to add complex animations to your project quickly and in a few lines of code.

Anything in JavaScript can be considered either truthy or falsy. Craig looks at what these values are and the bizarre rules that apply when they're compared

Calibre is a fully-automated tool suite for auditing & improving performance. Here's how to use it to detect the impact of running JavaScript on your site.

Paul Orac shows you how to create a realtime, multiplayer version of tic-tac-toe using Meteor. Learn to quickly prototype full-stack JavaScript applications

Take advantage of QR codes without the need for a native app. Dmitri Lau demonstrates how to build a QR code reader using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Craig Buckler shows you how to use RestDB to create a simple CMS.

Camilo Reyes looks at the observer pattern — a handy pattern to use for keeping parts of a page in sync in response to events and the data they provide.

Brain Greig shows you how to get up and running with Headless Chrome and demonstrates how to capture screenshots of pages as you use it to navigate a site.

Improve the loading performance and SEO of your Vue.js apps with Server-side rendering (SSR). Learn to build a universal Vue app with the Nuxt.js framework.

Almir Bijedic demonstrates how to use the Polymer library to create a custom Google Maps component and embed it into a WordPress site as a handy widget.