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 [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of December 9, 2013
This week’s update is brought to you by the words “chaos” and “over-scheduling.” Yes, that’s what I have done to myself. Nonetheless, there’s lots of great stuff to read. My highlights would include Raymond Camden’s article on how to convert your site to static without sacrificing functionality and Hyperglot which is a tool for building [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of December 2, 2013
Lots of great stuff this week. Despite its age, SVG appears to be hot - this week’s update features three great posts all focused on SVG (and there’s been many more in recent weeks). Also, check out an extremely comprehensive overview of PhoneGap mapping solutions and a great look at using CSS shapes and CSS [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of November 25, 2013
The US holiday last week may have delayed my post, but it didn’t lead to any shortage of great content. Some highlights this week include a look at how the Polygon pages for the Xbox One and PS4 were created (they were very well done), a look at how you can use Grunt to automate [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of November 18, 2013
A lot going on this past week, especially in the new and updated libraries. Some major new releases include updates to jQuery, Foundation, Kendo and Brackets as well as interesting new releases such as DPLOY, Ionic and DynoSRC. Tutorials Some tips for writing better and more performant jQuery and JavaScript code from Mathew Carella. Writing [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of November 11, 2013
Another busy week as usual. Some highlights this week include the continuation of series on building a parallax game using Pixi.js by Chris Caleb, a 3D Mac Plus scene built with pure CSS by Donovan Hutchinson, and a library for handling asynchronous programming by Vittorio Zaccaria. Tutorials Donovan Hutchinson explains how to create an animate [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of November 4, 2013
This week features a ton of great tutorials and articles. Some highlights include Toby Ho’s opinion piece on how JavaScript library authors need to work on creating more modular and smaller libraries. Also, the Simpson’s drawn using pure HTML and CSS. Or check out Sara Soueidan showing how to create non-rectangular layouts using CSS shapes. [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of October 28, 2013
A lot of great tutorials and a ton of new libraries this week. Check out how to use pixi.js to create an infinite scroller game, Bootstrap 3 as a workflow tool, ExpressWorks to learn Node and Express, and npm-onupdate to keep your libraries up to date. There are a couple of great “opinion” type pieces [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of October 21, 2013
A lot of great tutorials and releases this week - let me highlight a few? Do you know what monads are and why they are useful? Sean Voisen explains. Try to see the stereoscopic effect created with just CSS by Donovan Hutchinson (now try without getting a headache). Snap.svg is to SVG what jQuery is [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of October 14, 2013
This week check out the details on Ghost and how to get started, the beta preview of caniuse.com with new features, a great discussion on some of the ways flat UI’s fail and much more. Tutorials See how to generate vertex data for CSS transformed elements and use the data to shade elements using a [...]