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Well, that wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. Some googling and a couple of experiments went a long way, and now I have a partial, unstyled, Twig-based theme happily running on WordPress. Twig is a templating engine for php. It has more than enough features to get me going, setting it up is as easy as falling ...

Almost all of the web apps we build nowadays (at least on the circles I usually move around) rely on the beloved and hated session. This artifact, providing a stateful user wide storage, allows us to relate several HTTP requests together and thus implement the concept of authenticated and secure web applications, that “know” who is using them several requests ...

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 ...

While single-page JavaScript apps tend to be more dynamic and usually more interactive from the user point of view, they also most often have a longer startup time compared to more classic, server-side rendered apps. That’s usually where progress indicators and splash screens come into play. Obviously, the focus should clearly lie in optimizing the startup time to the maximum ...

This post is the continuation of the series Things I learned creating a jQuery Plugin. In the first part we have seen how the structure of a jQuery plugin must be, the plugin entry point (so called wrapper function) and how we can control the behavior of a method as a getter or setter. Define default options Your plugin more probably will accept ...

Over the years, I have seen several JavaScript techniques that are particularly clever. Here’s a short list of 5 such techniques that I have been using again and again. I hope it inspires you too to rethink how you write certain piece of code. And, please note that some people may think clever coding impacts readability and they might be ...

Earlier, I talked about the basics of JavaScript Closure. In this post, lets continue to explore Closure with the help of some practical examples. Before we begin, just to recap, Closure encloses function and the set of variables that were in scope of the function when it was declared. The variables inside the closure kept alive as long as the ...

Closures are very important topic in JavaScript that you must understand if you want to master the language. The earlier you know about Closures, the better you will write your JavaScript code. But, from my experience, most of the JavaScript beginners either do not understand Closure or do not know that the existence of the topic at all. So, in ...