By Zing Design With the release of Bootstrap 3 in mid-August, I was eager to take it out for a test drive. My expectations were pretty high for the latest iteration of the framework. The first thing that struck me when I was reading through the documentation were the many similarities to Foundation 4. At first […]
Ghost - Just a Blogging Platform
By Eric Terpstra Ghost is a new open source blogging platform dedicated solely to dead-simple publishing. It’s goal it to let writers write, and have fun doing it. No crazy hierarchy of menus to wade through; no finicky WYSIWYG editor mangling HTML; nothing to worry about except creating delightful posts. According to the creators of […]
Building Multiplayer Games with Node.js and Socket.IO
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Node.js vs. PHP
By Azat Mardanov PHP is not going to disappear soon, but its position is being undermined even further by the nascent Node.js. When the Internet exploded in the 2000′s, PHP was the thing “all the cool kids” did. PHP caught on because: It was an interpreted language, unlike C++ or Java which require the source code compilation; […]
Getting a Head Start with Front End Generators
By Jonathan Fielding In this post we will talk about the different generators we can use to get started on our projects. There are many different generators/scaffolders available, and we will cover a few of the most popular and look at how we can use them in our projects. Initializr (www.initializr.com) Initializr was one of the […]
Choosing Between npm, Bower and component
By Seth Vincent There is still no best answer to client-side package managers and dependency management. We still have to cobble together the solutions that work best in the context of each project, but at least we’re not downloading js/css manually through the browser, using wget or writing bash scripts to download/update our client-side dependencies. […]
Writing a Command Line Utility using Node
By Jonathan Fielding Recently I started writing my own command line utility using Node. In doing some research, I found a few tutorials including a great one over at Javascript Playground, however many were out of date or left out some key details. In this article I plan to walk you through all the steps […]