By Zing Design The Sass versus LESS argument has been done to death. In this article I’ll explain why Sass really is the best and why you should start using Sass if you haven’t already. If you are interested, I’ve also written about how to get started using Sass and the problems with pre-processors. Before I begin […]
By Krasimir Tsonev I like the quote that goes something like, “Programming is all about managing complexity.” The computer world is a giant construction of abstractions. We simply wrap things and produce new tools over and over again. Just think for a minute. The languages which you use have built-in functionality that are probably abstracted […]
This is the first week that I have separated out the post on articles and tutorials from new and updated projects. There are lots of new libraries to cover this week. Gulp got a lot of attention, in large part because it aims to replace the popular Grunt task runner. Koa also stood out as […]
Apologies for the massive update, but this is the first update of the new year and there was a lot of catching up to do. You may notice a significant change in the list below - where’d the new and updated libraries go? I’ve decided to split these out into a separate post which will […]
By David Simpson My first use of Sass in a production environment came when I started working as a designer and developer on Product Marketing at HubSpot. I had read a lot about LESS and Sass and the concepts of CSS pre-processors, and even dabbled with how they worked, but didn’t fully understand how powerful […]
By Aurelio De Rosa Today’s world move fast - really fast. When writing, a lot of people use abbreviations and acronyms to save time. We can find these used all over the web. They are so frequently used that an HTML tag, <abbr>, was created to identify them and help improve the semantic markup of […]
By Todd Anderson Lately, several projects (both personal and work-related) have ignited an increasing obsession over page load speed and performance. I wanted to highlight a few tools and resources I find useful in analyzing performance and delivering web pages in production with optimal load time. Where’d this hat come from? Over the past decade […]
By Brian Rinaldi As noted in the companion post, things moved fast and furiously in the web development world in 2013. Thus, I asked a number of our authors to help shed some light on what web developers might need to know for 2014. Specifically, I asked, “Looking into 2014, what do you think will […]
By Brian Rinaldi 2013 definitely felt, to me, like a turning point year in web development. In that vein, I reached out to a number of our authors and asked them, “What trend did you perceive in 2013 that had a significant impact on web and/or mobile developers?” Here are their answers. (If you are […]
So much happened over the past year, it is hard to keep track. We got major rewrites of popular libraries including jQuery 2.0, PhoneGap 3.0, Grunt 0.4, Backbone 1.0, Ember 1.0, Foundation 5, Bootstrap 3 and more. We were introduced to new (or newish) libraries and tools like Yeoman, Pixi.js, Polymer, React, Ractive.js, Node-Webkit, Harp […]
