Performance: Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8 (Chrome, Node) are specifically designed for the fast execution of large JavaScript applications. As you develop, if you care about memory usage and...
View ArticleIs JavaScript the Future of Programming?
JavaScript is the programming language that makes a website interactive. Slideshows, advertising pop-ups and Google’s autocomplete feature are all examples of JavaScript at work. It was first created...
View ArticleDevelopmental Balance: Building A Relationship Between CSS & JavaScript
jQuery, Prototype, Node.js, Backbone.js, Mustache and thousands of JavaScript microlibraries all combine into a single undeniable fact: JavaScript is popular. It’s so popular, in fact, that we often...
View ArticleWhich JavaScript Recipe Is Right For You?
JavaScript has been called everything from great to awful to the assembly language of the Web, but we all use it. Love JavaScript or hate it: everyone admits there are serious flaws and not many...
View ArticleRelease: Responsive Nav: A Simple JavaScript Plugin For Responsive Navigation
There are several ways to make navigation responsive, and usually the solution we need is quite straightforward. But despite the apparent simplicity, there are many underlying factors which, when...
View ArticleAnalyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we had a look at how the underlying protocols of the Web work, and how we can use JavaScript to estimate their performance characteristics. In this second part, we’ll look...
View ArticleThinking Inside The Box With Vanilla JavaScript
During the past four or five years of blogging regularly and doing research for other writing projects, I’ve come across probably thousands of articles on JavaScript. To me, it seems that a big...
View ArticleAn Introduction To Full-Stack JavaScript
Nowadays, with any Web app you build, you have dozens of architectural decisions to make. And you want to make the right ones: You want to use technologies that allow for rapid development, constant...
View ArticleWriting A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM
At present, jQuery is the de facto library for working with the document object model (DOM). It can be used with popular client-side MV* frameworks (such as Backbone), and it has a ton of plugins...
View ArticleFrizz-Free JavaScript With ConditionerJS
Setting up JavaScript-based functionality to work across multiple devices can be tricky. When is the right time to load which script? Do your media queries matches tests, your geolocation popups...
View ArticleAnalyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we had a look at how the underlying protocols of the Web work, and how we can use JavaScript to estimate their performance characteristics. In this second part, we’ll look...
View ArticleThinking Inside The Box With Vanilla JavaScript
During the past four or five years of blogging regularly and doing research for other writing projects, I’ve come across probably thousands of articles on JavaScript. To me, it seems that a big...
View ArticleAn Introduction To Full-Stack JavaScript
Nowadays, with any Web app you build, you have dozens of architectural decisions to make. And you want to make the right ones: You want to use technologies that allow for rapid development, constant...
View Article14 Tools For Minifying Javascript
Javascript minification is a technique which condenses your script into a much smaller footprint. You lose human readability but you conserve considerable bandwidth – in the end, Javascript is meant...
View Article8 JavaScript Libraries to Animate SVG
SVG is a resolution-independent graphic. That means it will look good on any type of screen without suffering any loss of quality. Beyond that, you can also makes SVG come alive with some animation...
View ArticleAn Introduction To Full-Stack JavaScript
Nowadays, with any Web app you build, you have dozens of architectural decisions to make. And you want to make the right ones: You want to use technologies that allow for rapid development, constant...
View ArticleWriting A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM
At present, jQuery is the de facto library for working with the document object model (DOM). It can be used with popular client-side MV* frameworks (such as Backbone), and it has a ton of plugins...
View Article13 JavaScript Libraries to Create Interactive & Customized Maps
We previously featured Google Map Maker and 10 other tools to help you build maps. However, if you prefer using Javascript libraries instead, have we got the post for you. Here are the JS libraries you...
View Article9 Javascript Libraries To Build Interactive Charts
So you have in your hand tons of data, with a number of variables, that you have to somehow relay to somebody else. Raw, unorganized data is going to be difficult for them to understand. This is why...
View ArticleChoosing the Right JavaScript MVC Framework [Infographic]
With web design and development evolving at a fast pace in the past couple of years, more and more new tools are introduced with better approaches to facilitate a web developer’s task, tools like...
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