Editorial: To Benchmark, or Not to Benchmark?
JavaScript
By Nilson Jacques,
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?
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Tips and Tricks for Debugging Electron Applications
JavaScript
By Steve Kinney,
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.
Create Your Own Yeoman-Style Scaffolding Tool with Caporal.js
JavaScript
By James Kolce,
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.
Make Your Website Interactive and Fun with Velocity.js (No jQuery)
HTML & CSS
By Maria Antonietta Perna,
Maria Antonietta Perna introduces Velocity JS, a super featured JavaScript library for DOM animation, and shows how to use it without jQuery dependency.
Writing Better JavaScript with Flow
JavaScript
By Nilson Jacques,
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.
Automated Accessibility Checking with aXe
HTML & CSS
By Pavels Jelisejevs,
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.
How to Choose the Right Front-end Framework for Your Company
JavaScript
By Chris Lienert,
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.
How to Pass Command Line Parameters to Gulp Tasks
JavaScript
By Craig Buckler,
Have you ever wanted to write Gulp Tasks that accept command line arguments? Craig Buckler shows you how and covers some potential use cases.
How to Easily Share Code Between Projects with Bit
JavaScript
By Jonathan Saring,
Jonathan Saring introduces Bit, new OSS distributed code component manager built to make components reusable across repositories, and much more.
Building Gorgeous 3D Maps with eegeo.js and Leaflet
JavaScript
By Tim Jenks,
Display 3D maps in just a few lines of code and overlay data from a 3rd-party API. Tim Jenks creates a dynamic map of the London Underground with eegeo.js
How We Built EQCSS & Why You Should Try Building Your Own Polyfills Too
HTML & CSS
By Tom Hodgins,
Tom Hodgins recounts how they put together EQCSS and shares why he believes all web developers should try building their own polyfills.
Make a Skype Bot with Electron & the Microsoft Bot Framework
JavaScript
By Almir Bijedic,
Almir Bijedic builds a chatbot to hold daily scrum meetings via Skype. Learn to use Microsoft Bot Framework and Node to connect to multiple chat networks.
React Storybook: Develop Beautiful User Interfaces with Ease
JavaScript
By Pavels Jelisejevs,
Pavels Jelisejevs introduces React Storybook, demonstrating how it aids collaboration and eases the pain of maintaining the UI components in your projects.
Introducing GraphicsJS, a Powerful Lightweight Graphics Library
JavaScript
By Roman Lubushkin,
Create beautiful graphics with ease, as Roman Lubushkin introduces you to GraphicsJS, a new and powerful open-source, SVG-based JavaScript drawing library.
Introducing: Chatbots with Our First Mini Course
JavaScript
By Angela Molina,
We’re happy to introduce Mini Courses, it’s a shorter course made for your quick breaks. In 1-hour, we'll show you how to make your first chatbot, for free!
Fun Web Animation Effects with KUTE.js
HTML & CSS
By Maria Antonietta Perna,
Maria Antonietta Perna introduces KUTE.js, a versatile library as her second installment in the Beyond CSS: Dynamic DOM Animation Libraries series.