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High Performance JavaScript
Five contributors to O’Reilly’s “High Performance JavaScript” (Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, and Matt Sweeney) discuss advanced JavaScript and DOM scripting optimizations at the April 2010 BayJax meetup at Yahoo. Original source
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Bootstrap 4 and SASS – O’Reilly Web Programming
[ad_1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IBFb74Yv8wA/hqdefault.jpg On day 3 Jen Kramer of O’Reilly Media, Inc. examines Bootstrap 4’s new features and functions. She looks at the Sass files. That’s right – Bootstrap 4 has dumped LESS in favor of Sass CSS preprocessor files. The files have been completely rewritten and refactored to take advantage of Sass data structures. It’s…
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Best of Fluent 2012: Maintainable JavaScript
Video of Nicholas Zakas from his Fluent Conference 2012 Presentation Maintainable JavaScript tackles the difficult problem of writing code as part of a large team. When you’re writing code that only you will change, there aren’t any issues. As soon as you’re writing code that someone else is going to also be changing, you need…
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What’s an Object in JavaScript?
When you begin programming with JavaScript you might run across books, tutorials, and people who say “Everything in JavaScript is an object.” While it’s not 100% true (not *everything* is an object), it is *mostly* true. And sometimes this can be a bit surprising. Here’s a new mantra for your next (JavaScript programming) meditation session.…
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Paul Irish, “JavaScript Development Workflow of 2013”
From the Fluent 2012 conference: The past two years have given us a wealth of tools and editor innovation that makes developing web apps more fun and certainly more productive. Learn what a modern development workflow looks like, from editors and plugins, to authoring abstractions, testing and DVCS integration. About Paul Irish (Google): Paul Irish…
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The Linguistics of JavaScript – Erin McKean (Wordnik) keynote
From Fluent 2015: “Javascript is Esperanto that does something.” Constructed languages — conlangs — are artificially-created languages, a category which includes Esperanto, Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki, and yes, Javascript. Can thinking about Javascript the way we think about other human languages help us be better coders, or at least write more readable code? About Erin McKean…