JavaScript

If you use any scripts for syntax highlighting, then you have seen that most of them have “copy to clipboard” as an option. And now you want to use that in your next project. But how? You don’t even need to worry, we’ve got you covered. Just follow along. We will use: Javascript Flash Zero Clipboard Copy to Clipboard in ...

For my next project and, after looking for candidates and reading some hundreds of lines of documentation, I finally choose to work with the so called MEAN stack: mongodb, express, angular and node. As with any other technology ecosystem, the great number of frameworks, libraries and tools can make our choice a challenge, and JavaScript is not an exception. But for ...

Although JavaScript might be the world’s most misunderstood language, it is now among the most popular and most used ones. Thus you should also treat it as such. Meaning, to properly structure your frontend, apply code linters, automated testing… The available tools make that even easier than you might think. You can’t control what you can’t measure Tom DeMarco A ...

In the last few weeks I was doing some work with client side templates. Since most of the webbies seemed to be unfamiliar with the concept and had a wee bit of bother wrapping their heads around it, here’s a short explanation of the whole idea. Code for this post can be downloaded here or seen here. Formatting output with ...

Single Page Apps are becoming increasingly popular as the demand for highly responsive apps is increasing. We could be using Ajax and Javascript to do this, but we will be using Angular as it is a structural framework for dynamic web-apps, efficient and easy to use, as described by the people who built it. We’re going to create a simple ...

One of the challenges when building nontrivial Web applications is that JavaScript’s non-directive nature can initially lead to a lack of structure in your code. JavaScript is often written as a free-hanging and unrelated blocks of code, and it doesn’t take long before it becomes hard to make sense of the logic and organization of your own code. This becomes ...

Last time I demonstrated how to Consume RESTful API With Angular-HAL, and now I want to show you how to unit test my AngularJS controller code withJasmine, a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. BDD and Jasmine I’m a big fan of Test-Driven Development (TDD). And I always want to write unit test for my code. But not everyone ...

This article outlines some of my notes of a webinar about Angular.js I recently participated at. These are really just “baby steps” in that it covers the very basics that might help to get started. Since these are really my first steps with Angular, I might have misunderstood some of the stuff. So feel free to help me improve this ...

Writing blog post how I managed to configure multi module JavaScript project with Grunt for my spare time project. It is using Protractor for end-to-end testing, but I believe that this multi module approach would be easily portable onto non-Angular stack. In my spare time I work on pet project based on EAN stack (Express, Angular, Node.JS). (Project doesn’t need ...