This week’s new and updated projects are heavily CSS focused, including Pleeease, CSS Shapes Polyfill, AniJS and DoCSSa. Enjoy! Pleeease is a CSS postprocessor that adds prefixes, variables, pseudo-element and rem unit support, minifies and more.Pleeease · Postprocess CSS with ease The CSS Shapes Polyfill tests for browser support and, if not, it approximates the […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 5, 2014
Lots of goodies this week including more Gulp, a great look at creating client-side diff tooling for CSS and a great look at a bunch of sites you can use to get your coding skills stronger through code exercise. Tutorials Can we do DOM traversal without jQuery using vanilla JavaScript? Are newer libraries doing it […]
Rethinking DOM Traversal
By Brian Rinaldi In web development, as in life, sometimes we develop patterns in how we think about a topic or achieve a common task. This is necessary, as to do otherwise would waste a lot of mental cycles on trivial problems we’ve already solved. However, these patterns can be hard to break, even when […]
Beef Up Your Skills with Code Exercise
By Eric Terpstra Just as those who want to get in shape might not have the time or inclination to train for a marathon, programmers who want to sharpen their skills might seek an alternative to slogging through a dense textbook or taking a full course. Likewise, many developers may have missed some of the […]
Roll Your Own Asset Pipeline with Gulp
By Jeff Dickey I’ve found myself using Gulp for just about everything involving HTML/CSS/JS these days. It’s super fast, quick to write scripts for and flexible. I’m at a point now where I have a ton of projects I can just cd into, run gulp and be up and running. It’s the best solution I’ve […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of April 28, 2014
This week’s significant update is that GitHub has open sourced it’s editor Atom. Between Brackets, Atom and (as featured below) Hyro, we’re getting a lot of choices for free, lightweight open-source code editors. GitHub has open sourced their Atom code editor and the related Atom shell that it runs in under the MIT license. A […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of April 28, 2014
This week features some great tutorials and articles. My personal highlights include TJ VanToll’s look at the state of hybrid mobile development (really, a must read if you do PhoneGap), Ana Tudor’s panorama in CSS and Joakim Bengtson discussing his Slush scaffolding tool. Enjoy! Tutorials Rodney Rehm looks at how to identify the DOM context […]
Slush - A Better Web App Scaffolding Tool
By Joakim Bengtson In the world of web development today it’s hard to stay updated with the ever increasing amount of new modules, libraries and packages that are released each day. What’s hot today can be forgotten tomorrow. One way to be sure that you are using state of the art techniques is to use […]
Simple Content Management with Node.js and Markdown
By Krasimir Tsonev Recently, I released a project named Techy. It’s a flat CMS based on Node.js and Markdown. I made it because I wanted to write my articles in Markdown format and avoid the time-consuming publishing workflow which I’ve been using. This post will cover a little bit about how why I created the […]
Replacing jQuery with Vanilla JavaScript
By Zachary Brady It seems as if jQuery has become synonymous with JavaScript. Since its introduction in 2006, jQuery has caused a revolution in front-end scripting. It has made it easier for newcomers to get up and running, decreased prototyping and development time, and has opened the door into an endless supply of new UX […]