Category: javascript

Genius misuse of WOFF 2 and Brotli to win a JavaScript contest.

August 5, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

JS1024 2022 Competition Winners — JS1024 is a ‘code golfing’ contest where you get 15 days to create a JavaScript or GLSL program within 1024 bytes. This results in lots of creative ideas, complete with fantastic (non-minified) source to check out. The winning JS entry…

Douglas Crockford on ‘retiring’ JavaScript

July 29, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Roll Your Own JavaScript Runtime — Bun, Rhino, Deno, Node, and now Blueboat.. is creating your own JavaScript runtime environment the new “hello world”? 😆 Not quite, but this is a fun walk through the bare basics of the process, and you’ll have a Rust,…

Top Bootstrap Admin Templates

July 27, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Bootstrap is a free high-performance frontend framework that provides out-of-the-box HTML, CSS, and JS components for building mobile responsive websites of any size and complexity. Using Bootstrap, you have ready-made responsive templates and themes available for your web project.  With Bootstrap you will have HTML…

Common JavaScript issues developers face

July 22, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

RedwoodJS vs. Blitz.js: The Future of Fullstack Meta-Frameworks — Quite a lengthy review of both frameworks. Redwood is an opinionated React-based framework oriented heavily round the idea of a GraphQL server as the ‘one API’ at the heart of an app. Blitz, on the other…

Top Vue Admin Dashboard Templates

July 19, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Vue.js is an open-source JavaScript framework for creating UIs and SPAs. It uses the MVVM (model-view-model) architecture pattern. It’s very popular because of its familiar template syntax and use of components, integrating or migrating existing projects to Vue is faster and smoother. For this reason,…

Vite 3, or in French: quick, quick, quick.

July 15, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

CKEditor 5 Is Here to Make Collaborative Writing Easy — A customizable rich text editor that allows you to build collaboration within your application in hours. Ready-to-use features like comments, track changes, real-time collaboration, version history and many more. Start your free trial to implement it now.…

Top React Admin Dashboard Templates

July 13, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

React.js makes it easy to create an interactive UI. Because it’s developed and supported by Facebook, you don’t have to be concerned about its handling of complex code. Also, It has grown as one of the best libraries in recent years for component-based GUI development.…

An all-in-Bun JavaScript runtime.

July 8, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Bun: An Exciting, Speedy New JavaScript Runtime — Tired of Node? Tired of Deno? Never. But a new challenger has appeared. Bun is aimed at ‘outside of browser’ use cases and is built around WebKit’s JavaScriptCore, rather than V8. Some notable features: Includes its own…

How to build a web app. A complete guide

July 6, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

A web application (web app) is an application program that is stored on a remote server and made available over the Internet through a browser interface. Web services by definition are web applications, though many, but not all, websites use web applications.  Web applications can…