This article compares the major differences between the the original AngularJS and Angular 2+. If you’re currently stuck with an AngularJS project and not sure whether you should make the jump, this article should help you get started. In recent years, we’ve seen Angular grow tremendously as a framework and as a pl...
A jQuery Form Wizard is a jQuery plugin that assists with the creation of forms with some sort of form flow (without refreshing your page). For example, if you had a large form for entering user data, you could use a form wizard to divide it into a series of related steps. This has the advantage of not overwhelming use...
This post was originally published on calibreapp.com and reposted here with the author’s permission. If you’re interested in taking Calibre for a spin, you can start a free 14-day trial today. There are plenty of reasons why the presence of JavaScript (what it does, how it works, and how heavy it is) needs to ...
The barcode and QR code have modernized our shopping and searching experience. Customers carrying smartphones can now pick up a product anywhere in the world, scan its barcode or its QR code using one of the many free phone apps and find out its lowest price as well as where it can be bought.Companies like Walmart an...
In JavaScript, there is a problem that comes up often. You need a way to update parts of a page in response to certain events, with the data these provide. Say, for example, user input that you then project into one or many components. This leads into a lot of push-and-pull in the code to keep everything in sync. This ...
Functional programming (FP) has become a hot topic in the JavaScript community. It’s being touted as a great way of building scalable and maintainable applications and we’re staring to see many of its core principles incorporated into libraries and frameworks — for example stateless functional components ...
Oftentimes in our line of work we need to be able to replicate a user journey repeatedly to make sure that our pages are offering a consistent experience as we make changes to our site. Critical to being able to accomplish this consistently and conveniently are libraries that allow us to script these types of tests, s...
Web components are a set of standards for creating custom, reusable HTML elements. Polymer is an open-source JavaScript library for building web applications using web components. Created by those clever folks at Google, it provides a number of additional features over vanilla web components and when used with a polyfi...
The web can seem fast moving. New frameworks, tools, and even languages come and go. Yet many developers feel that they have to move as fast as their slowest user. New browsers are ‘evergreen’ — they auto-update unseen in the background without asking for permission, and they’re making leaps and bounds in t...
Webpack is all the rage right now. It has over 30,000 stars on GitHub and has been embraced by some of the big guns in the JavaScript world, such as the React and Angular. However, you don’t need to be working on a large-scale project to take advantage of Webpack. Webpack is primarily a bundler, and as such you c...
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