JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

Grunt has made web development more enjoyable. By automating repetitive tasks, it has allowed web developers to focus on building features rather than copying, compiling, and configuring.

In this post, I will share some advanced tooling with Grunt which will help you use it to its full potential.

* Bash functions
* Loading all grunt tasks automatically
* Aliasing tasks
* Verbose mode & debugging
* Invest in a good watch
* Using variables in your configuration
* Running individual test specs
* Plugins to check out

Supporting event listeners, animating elements with CSS3, and injecting content into the DOM.

This article continues the discussion of the slider component began in this series' first installment. You'll see how to incorporate event listeners, animate the slider's knob, and inject the slider itself into an existing DOM tree. More specifically, you will learn how to:

In Part 1 and Part 2 of Backbone.js Deconstructed, we are going to examine the function of the Backbone Library at the code level.

Specifically, in Part 1 we will identify some helpful (dare I say 'required'?) prerequisites that make learning Backbone a rewarding endeavor. Then we will cover some critical details about Single Page Applications (SPAs) that are needed before one can truly understand the purpose and parts of Backbone. After we have a mental foundation for SPAs, we will dive into the code by systematically breaking down the details around Backbone.Events, creating Backbone Objects, the Backbone.Router() and Backbone.History(), and lastly, Backbone utilities. In Part 2 of Backbone.js Deconstructed, we will systematically uncover the purpose and functionality provided by Backbone.Model, Backbone.View, and Backbone.Collection.

One of the most commonly used JavaScript libraries today is RequireJS. In every project that I’m involved with lately, we use RequireJS or I suggest to add RequireJS. In this post I’m going to describe what RequireJS is and some of its basic scenarios.

In depth analysis of built in AngularJS currency, date, number, filter, orderby, lowercase, uppercase, and json filters along with details on how to create your own filters.

The next version of JavaScript, ES6, is starting to arrive. Many of its features are simple enhancements to the language we already have: things like arrow functions, class syntax, and destructuring. But other features will change the way we program JavaScript, fundamentally expanding the capabilities of the language and reshaping our future codebases. In this talk we'll focus on two of these, discovering the the myriad possibilities of generators and the many tricks you can pull of with template strings.

Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior is a fun way to learn to program JavaScript. In a unique twist, as you’re learning to build your ultimate robot warriors, you’re also learning JavaScript coding. Become the best coder in the land, and you’ll find yourself on the pathway to victory.

Demonstration of how to build Backbone.js application from scratch and use views, collections, subviews, models, event binding, AMD, Require.js on the example of the apple database application.

We’re going to build a typical starter “Hello World” application using Backbone.js and Mode-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. I know it might sound like overkill in the beginning, but as we go along we’ll add more and more complexity, including Models, Subviews and Collections.

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In a series of tutorials, I’m going to help you get started with Grunt, an open source JavaScript task runner that will automate some of your web development tasks.

This nifty JavaScript library will notably speed up and improve your web development processes, and also help you sidestep common human errors.

My intention with this Grunt tutorial series is to get you to experience the same productivity and efficiency improvements I’ve gained through this useful, but little-known open source JavaScript tool.

I'll give you guys a two-part post that will walk you through creating your first MEAN stack app- from installing the tools to actually writing the code. In Part One we’ll go through the setup and installation process.

We’ll start by installing all of our tools. NodeJS and MongoDB are designed to be as close to operating system independent as possible and we will be covering three of the most common operating systems here – OSX, Windows 7/8, and Ubuntu.

JavaScript’s constructors have never been particularly popular: Douglas Crockforddoesn’t like them and recently, more anti-constructor material has been published (two examples: blog posts by Kyle Simpson and Eric Elliott).

In this blog post, I explain that not all of the constructors’ flaws are real. But even with those that are real, I still recommend to use them. I’ll tell you why and what the future holds for constructors.