By Eric Terpstra With the release of the Ouya, Xbox One and PS4 this year, couch-based console gaming appears to be as popular as ever. Despite the proliferation of multi-player games available on mobile devices, and even the advent of multi-player experiences available on the web, sitting next to the person you’re playing a game […]
Functional Reactive Programming in JavaScript
By Sean Voisen If you are a front-end developer – that is, someone who builds user interfaces for a living – and you haven’t yet explored Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), perhaps now is the time to take a look. Never mind the fact that it has been labeled a hipster development trend for 2013, FRP is a time-saving, […]
Rethinking JavaScript’s Try/Catch
By Ryan Morr The try/catch block is a unique construct, both in how it works and what it is capable of. Fundamentally, it is able to isolate one or more statements to capture and suppress any runtime errors that may be encountered as a result of execution. It is such a powerful construct that in […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of September 16, 2013
This was a very, very busy week. Unsurprisingly, we had a ton of mobile focused tutorials and articles with the release of iOS 7. However, there were a long list of new projects as well and lots of tutorials - with Node being an extremely popular topic lately. I know there’s a lot here, but […]
Automating Complex Workflows with Grunt Custom Tasks
By Ben Farrell Grunt.js has come onto our web development scene pretty quickly. It’s only at 0.4.1 at the time I write this, but it seems to be a pretty standard part of many of our toolboxes already. It’s fairly common to see it in a web project wherein the developer may need to pull […]
Easy API Scaffolding with Simple-API and Node.js
By Joseph Wegner API’s are often a pain to build. There’s all kinds of moving pieces: routing, data parsing, serialization, database interactions, etc. For years I’ve struggled with writing web API’s in Node.js - there’s just so much complexity required in an API boilerplate. That’s why I wrote Simple API. Simple API is an incredibly easy […]
Creating a Realistic Rain Effect with Canvas and JavaScript
By Marek Brodziak I recently released a fun project called rainyday.js. I consider it a rather humble piece of code and, in fact, it is more or less my first contact with JavaScript on a level that requires a little more than displaying alert popups. Hopefully, some of you will find it useful and interesting. […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of September 9, 2013
A wide variety of tutorials and projects this week as well as updates to Edge Reflow and Photoshop (including the Node.js-based Photoshop Generator). Tutorials Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs with programs written in JavaScript that can be executed inline. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Horia Olaru announces a CSS Blend Modes Support Matrix […]
Break The Wrist And Walk Away: Responsive Design And Bootstrap 3
By Burke Holland This is me and design. I want to be a designer. I want to build beautiful sites. I don’t just want to code, I want to be an artist. A creative. I work for a UI company. Everything that I live and breathe is UI. The sad truth of the matter is […]
A Taste of FruitJS
By Andrew Hushbeck FruitJS (pronounced Fruit Juice) is a new Node.js utility for writing your technical documentation in Markdown and compiling to an easy to use HTML site. You can install and use FruitJS through npm and the command line utility, or by grabbing the source yourself at https://github.com/ktsashes/fruitjs. The project was built with the […]
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