In this article, we’re going to look at creating a build setup for handling modern JavaScript (running in web browsers) using Babel and Webpack. This is needed to ensure that our modern JavaScript code in particular is made compatible with a wider range of browsers than it might otherwise be. JavaScript, like most we...
In this article, we’ll learn what the new Fetch API looks like, what problems it solves, and the most practical way to retrieve remote data inside your web page using the fetch() function. For years, XMLHttpRequest has been web developers’ trusted sidekick. Whether directly or under the hood, XMLHttpRequest has ena...
ES6 brought a number of new features to the JavaScript language. Two of these features, generators and iterators, have substantially changed how we write specific functions in more complex front-end code. While they do play nicely with each other, what they actually do can be a little confusing, so let’s check them o...
In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to build a basic Twitter client with NodeJS, and an Angular application to display your home timeline of tweets. This is a rapid tour with things to consider while setting up your own Twitter client and Angular application. First, we’re going to build a NodeJS server, wh...
In the first part of this miniseries, we started digging into the world of React to see how we could use it, together with Node.js, to build a React Universal Blog App. In this second and last part, we’ll take our blog to the next level by learning how to add and edit content. We’ll also get into the real m...
When the topic of single page applications (SPAs) comes up, we tend to think of browsers, JavaScript, speed, and invisibility to search engines. This is because an SPA renders a page’s content using JavaScript, and since web crawlers don’t use a browser to view web pages, they can’t view and index the...
Handlebars is one of the most widely used JavaScript templating libraries for both client-side and server-side rendering. It implements the mustache specification but adds some extra sauce to make working with templates easier. If you’re new to Handlebars and want to know more, I suggest you to check out my Plura...
This is quite an extensive overview of the jQuery each() function. This function is one of jQuery’s most important and most used functions. In this article we’ll find out why and look into its details to see how you can use it. [author_more] What is jQuery .each() jQuery’s each() function is used to l...
Imagine you want to bake a cake by following a recipe. You’ll need a few ingredients, and a right quantity for each of them. What if you could get a box with all the ingredients your recipe requires, already measured and weighted to match your recipe? It surely would make baking much easier. This is what GraphQL ...
HTML5 WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors are always high in demand. But there are now so many of them around that it’s hard to find the best ones. In today’s post we are going to present you what I think are 10 of the very best jQuery and HTML5 WYSIWYG plugins just to save your time finding the ...
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