This week features some great tutorials and articles. My personal highlights include TJ VanToll’s look at the state of hybrid mobile development (really, a must read if you do PhoneGap), Ana Tudor’s panorama in CSS and Joakim Bengtson discussing his Slush scaffolding tool. Enjoy!
Tutorials
Rodney Rehm looks at how to identify the DOM context of the current running JavaScript.
Identifying the current <script> element
An awesome, proof-of-concept panorama in pure CSS by Ana Tudor.
Panoramic (pure CSS)
An overview of JavaScript promises – what they are, how they work and their inclusion in ES6 – by Zef Hemel.
Promises: The New Async Standard in Browser JavaScript?
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer explains JavaScript’s this including how it works and some of its potential pitfalls.
JavaScript’s this: how it works, where it can trip you up
Libraries and Frameworks
Joakim Bengtson explains why Slush, which is built upon Gulp, might be a better web application scaffolding tool and shows how to use it.
Slush – A Better Web App Scaffolding Tool
Krasimir Tsonev shows how to use Techy, a simple content management system that uses Markdown and runs on Node.js.
Simple Content Management with Node.js and Markdown
A look at replacing jQuery with vanilla JavaScript for basic functionality like swapping CSS classes by Zachary Brady.
Replacing jQuery with Vanilla JavaScript
Rey Bango shows how to use the new notifications widget in the open source Kendo UI Core.
Adding Application Notifications With Kendo UI Core
Azat Mardanov write a newly revised tutorial for creating a REST API with Express, Node.js and MongoDB, using Express 4.
Express.js 4, Node.js and MongoDB REST API Tutorial
Part 2 of a great React tutorial by Jim Cowart, this edition covering remote data, mixins, JSX precompiling and more.
A Thrown-to-the-Wolves-Hands-On Introduction to React Part 2
Debug is a small logging library for JavaScript that allows filtering outputs and more – Toby Ho shows how it works.
Debug
Mobile
Is hybrid mobile application development in decline? TJ VanToll takes an great impartial look at the state of hybrid.
The State of Hybrid Mobile Development
Aleksander Koko walks through building your first FirefoxOS app using web technologies.
An introduction to Firefox OS app development
Etc.
WebComponents.org is a new site to “discuss and evolve web component best-practices.”
WebComponents.org
Brian Rinaldi is the founder of Flippin’ Awesome. Brian works as the Developer Content Manager at Telerik (though this site is not affiliated with his employer) focused on ensuring that the Developer Relations team creates top notch content for the web development community. Previously, Brian focused on publishing HTML, CSS and JavaScript developer content for the Adobe Developer Connection at Adobe.
Brian has published in a variety of technical publications over the years, has presented at numerous conferences and events and has served as a technical editor on a number of books.
You can read Brian’s blog archive with 9+ years of content at remotesynthesis.com (he still posts, infrequently). You can find a full list of Brian’s past publications and presentations. Follow Brian on Twitter @remotesynth.
Thank you very much~ ^_^
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EZoApp also use HTML + JS + CSS to develop app,
And use JqueryMobile and PhoneGap.
I hope you will like it. ^_^
Web site: http://www.ezoui.com/app/en-us/index.html
Tool: http://jqmdesigner.appspot.com/designer.html
Youtube: http://youtu.be/-qKX8pSWVgY?