Bluetooth beacons are an incredibly valuable way to set up location based triggers for apps. Estimote have a range of Bluetooth beacons that are quite easy to set up and experiment with. One of the tough parts of testing out Bluetooth beacons is that device simulators aren’t able to access Bluetooth devices, so y...
This article was peer reviewed by Panayiotis Velisarakos, Taulant Spahiu and Nilson Jacques. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Let’s face it, nobody likes forms. Developers don’t like building them, designers don’t particularly enjoy styling them and us...
This article was peer reviewed by Chris Perry and Ritesh Kumar. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! In this article we’re going to give an overview of templating in JavaScript. We’ll first discuss what JavaScript templates are, when we should use them and h...
Let’s suppose you’d like to let the visitors of your website make a video recording or take a picture of their face. How can you explain to them how close they’re supposed to sit to the camera? You could write lengthy instructions, but you know that today almost nobody reads the instructions. Probably, a ...
This article was peer reviewed by Agbonghama Collins. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Data volumes are growing rapidly and they are becoming more complex to maintain. Many developers want to avoid the problems and headaches that are caused by data issues du...
If you like playing with new features which might not be available in all browsers, you have surely already tried Modernizr. This library allows to test whether the features you want are available or not. As Modernizr adds some CSS classes on the html element to indicate if a given feature is available, you might be te...
I recently built a quick prototype to get the classic interactive movie game Night Trap running in the browser. Assets stream from Azure Media Services and play through the open source video.js player as an .mp4. I also converted all of the video to adaptive streaming and am now in the process of using the Azure Media...
There are some cases in which providing a multilingual support is required. Sometimes it could be a good idea to provide support for different languages into the application you’re building and offer your users the possibility to view the content in different idioms. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add a mult...
Most mobile apps will need to store data locally and HTML5 introduced new options for storing data locally. To store data locally in an Cordova app we can use HTML5 storage combined with other mechanisms provided by plugins. In this tutorial, I will introduce different ways of storing data locally and we will see how t...
Since its release, PhantomJS has become a staple in the workflow of many JavaScript engineers. In the article titled “Headless WebKit and PhantomJS”, Colin Ihrig has introduced the concept of “Headless WebKit” and spent a few words on PhantomJS. With over 11,000 stars on GitHub, PhantomJS has become the go-to t...
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