Tag: javascript

Craig Buckler comes up with his list of the top JavaScript frameworks, libraries and tools, and explains when to use them.

WordPress theme developers need little more than a text editor and graphics package. But modern tools like Gulp can revolutionize your development workflow.

Craig Buckler gives you an accessible introduction to using media queries with JavaScript with matchMedia for a robust responsive design approach.

WebRTC allows you to easily build real-time communication software in your browser and is being standardized at the W3C and IETF levels. Using WebRTC, you can build real-time video chat applications in the browser that actually work well!

Maria Antonietta Perna presents tips for optimizing JavaScript animation performance and achieving the 60fps target for smooth motion on the web.

This book presents six complete JavaScript projects; each taking advantage of modern JavaScript and its ecosystem. You’ll learn to build several different apps, and along the way you’ll pick up a ton of useful advice, tips, and techniques.

This book outlines essential Javascript tools and skills that every modern JavaScript developer should know, including Babel, Webpack 4, Gulp.js, Axios and more.

There’s no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). We’re aiming to minimize that confusion with this set of books on modern JavaScript

JavaScript is a must-have skill for all web developers. The second edition of JavaScript: Novice to Ninja is a fun, practical, and comprehensive guide to the modern usage of this deceptively powerful language.

James explains the process of JavaScript versioning, covering the history of JavaScript and explaining the process by which yearly releases are organized.

Ivan digs into JavaScript performance, from environments, response times, context, parsing, compiling and executing, to bundle sizes and shipping less code.

Jeremy Wilken walks through how to build a basic Twitter client with NodeJS, and an Angular application to display your home timeline of tweets.

David Aden writes about the fundamental aspects of Angular 2 components and providers.

David Aden discusses Angular 2 components, looking at how they’re defined, and how to get data into them and back out of them.

I found a rounding bug in Number().toFixed() in every JavaScript environment I've tried. The fix is surprisingly simple.

Preact is an even lighter-and-faster alternative to React, weighing in at a measly 3kb! For less complex applications, it can be a great choice.

Raphael Londner shows how to easily integrate an AWS Lambda Node.js function with a MongoDB database hosted in MongoDB Atlas.

Camillo Reyes and Michiel Mulders demonstrate some experiments with Node.js and the command line, using callbacks, I/O operations and a web server.

Any brand can improve user experience by improving specific on-page factors. Loading speed is one that many website owners overlook.

Learn to write functional JavaScript tests with Selenium WebDriver 3, Mocha and Node.js.

Craig Buckler shows how to use Google Analytics to track not just page views but also events such as Ajax updates, file downloads and social interactions.

This tutorial shows you how to easily create a simple blog that is both fast and light-weight, using React, GraphQL and Cosmic JS.

The dynamic nature of JavaScript means that a function is able to not only call itself, but define itself, and even redefine itself.

Begin your journey of programming in JavaScript! Write your first couple of simple JavaScript programs, and begin to get to grips with the language

Tony Spiro shows how to build a React Universal Blog App that will first render markup on the server side to make your content available to search engines.

Dan Prince shows how to build a Todo app using React, Redux, and Immutable.js.

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

Craig discusses the tools, languages and career satisfaction levels of 64,000 developers who completed the 2017 Stack Overflow survey.

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.

Are you using the best development tools? Is your CSS compilation complicated? Have you bungled your JavaScript bundling? Craig discusses what we're using.