This week features a new release of the popular Pixi.js 2D game development framework and a new release of the Brackets code editor with some important improvements. The Brackets Sprint 36 build includes improved file watchers and file caching and new project preferences customization options. Brackets Sprint 36 Build Creditly.js includes the HTML, CSS and [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 3, 2014
This was apparently the week to post your intro Gulp tutorials and no one told me - we have three for you to choose from. Other highlights include a post about promises by Matt Greer, great overviews about using Node Webkit by Ben Farrell, understanding ES6 generators by Matt Baker and a good look at [...]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of January 27, 2014
This week included significant updates to Bootstrap and CoffeeScript. In addition, NodeJX, srcN-polyfill and extractCSS were new projects that seemed to garner a lot of attention. Bootstrap 3.1.0 was released and includes three new templates: Blog, Cover, and Dashboard. Bootstrap NodeJX is a fork of Node.js that supports multithreading. What is nodeJX? The srcN-polyfill is [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of January 27, 2014
There was a lot of content to choose from this week (and tough choices to be made). In the end, the list is still long but these articles are definitely worth the time. I wouldn’t say there was any particular themes coming through this week, just lots of great tutorials. Tutorials Learn how to get [...]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of January 20, 2014
This week featured a new jQuery release and some very interesting micro libraries. Fit.js is a JavaScript library with a simple purpose: help you fit things into other things. Fit.js This haptic effect demo includes a number of effects that work on Chrome for Android. Haptic Effect Demo testardo is a browser agnostic JavaScript web [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of January 20, 2014
Among the long list of tutorials, this week also featured a lot of debate surrounding the CSS Regions specification - first as part of a post on the A List Apart blog and a couple of responses on this site plus a decision by Google to reverse direction and remove Regions from Blink. Enjoy. Tutorials [...]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of January 13, 2014
Another busy week of library releases. Some highlights include an official port of Bootstrap to Sass, a new version of EaselJS with contributions from Mozilla and Conductance, a new web app server built on Node - but with integrated framework features. Enjoy! nodemon monitors in a Node.js application and can automatically restart the server, and [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of January 13, 2014
Lots of great tutorials this week as usual, but some of the most interesting items, in my opinion, this week ended up in the “etc.” section as they aren’t tutorials. I’m talking about the posts on the future of Node and jQuery in 2014 and a discussion of the PSD to HTML workflow by Nick [...]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of January 6, 2014
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 [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of January 6, 2014
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 [...]