Posted · Category: Chat, MIT License Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms. You can access from anywhere:… Continue reading Rocket.Chat – The Ultimate Open Source WebChat Platform
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Social Media Sharing Buttons without JavaScript
Posted · Category: MIT License, Social Love or loathe them, sharing buttons will not go away for a while. The default social media sharing scripts provided by the networks themselves are big, often download multiple files and track users across the web. Social Media Sharing Buttons generator outputs social media sharing buttons that do not… Continue reading Social Media Sharing Buttons without JavaScript
Surprisingly Easy Rainbow Light Painting Effect in 2 Minutes
Give your photos a unique look with this retro effect that’s super easy and fun. This effect is a great way to enhance the look of photos with a dark background. It will also only take you two minutes to complete because it only uses two layers. Preview of Final Results Step 1 Start off by… Continue reading Surprisingly Easy Rainbow Light Painting Effect in 2 Minutes
Algolia Places – Fast and Beautiful Address AutoCompletion
Posted · Category: Maps, MIT License Algolia Places is a fast, beautiful and easy-to-use address autocompletion. It turns any <input> into an address autocomplete. Algolia Places provides a fast, distributed and easy way to use an address search autocomplete JavaScript library on your website. It has been designed to improve the user experience of your… Continue reading Algolia Places – Fast and Beautiful Address AutoCompletion
8 Coding Playgrounds For Developers
Testing tools are essential for the developers as they constantly require to test their codes. Testing tools and codes play a vital role in the web development process in order to check the functionality and validate the codes. They are designed to help developers check and validate their codes and hence, save their time as… Continue reading 8 Coding Playgrounds For Developers
Chart.js A Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers
Chart.js was first introduced in year 2013, for 3 years of intensive development by many contributors, it has became quite a powerful open source Javascript charting plugin. It’s designed for both developers and designers. It supports 8 types of charts – Line, Bar, Radar, Polar Area, Pie & Doughnut, Scales charts. With version 2.0, you… Continue reading Chart.js A Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers
How to Integrate SmoothState.js Into a WordPress Theme
In our previous tutorial, we used the History Web API within a static site to serve smooth page transitions. In this tutorial we’re going to take things to the next level, by applying what we learned in a WordPress website. There’ll be one crucial difference; we’ll leverage SmoothState.js instead of building our own from scratch. SmoothState.js will: Request pages asynchronously (AJAX) and… Continue reading How to Integrate SmoothState.js Into a WordPress Theme
How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire
In this tutorial we will look at setting up a simple theme in ProcessWire, we’ll investigate delayed output (now the default theme strategy within ProcessWire), and setup our site to request new content using AJAX. To accompany this tutorial I have created a new theme for ProcessWire, making use of both AJAX and delayed output,… Continue reading How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire
Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles
Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles
Building a Vertical Timeline With CSS and a Touch of JavaScript
First, we’ll create the basic structure with minimal markup and the power of CSS pseudo-elements. Then, we’ll use some JavaScript to add some transitional effects as we scroll down the page. Let’s get an idea of what we’ll be building (check out the larger version on CodePen). This tutorial has been updated with another… Continue reading Building a Vertical Timeline With CSS and a Touch of JavaScript
How to Build a Pebble Application
What You’ll Be Creating The Pebble smartwatch has been around since its very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and is a popular choice amongst smartwatch users. This is due to its excellent battery life, low price, various models to choose from, and compatibility with both iOS and Android. Pebble has had a developer SDK since day one, encouraging developers… Continue reading How to Build a Pebble Application
Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress
What You’ll Be Creating How to Reach a PageSpeed of 100 Welcome to part two of our series on Google PageSpeed. In the first episode, I optimized the PageSpeed of my site’s then theme, MySiteMyWay’s Construct. I managed to get to 70 Mobile and 86 Desktop. However, with MySite’s closure, I chose a new theme and reached… Continue reading Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress
Selecting Parent Elements with CSS and jQuery
There have been occasions where I’ve wished I was able to select a parent element with CSS–and I’m not alone on this matter. However, there isn’t such thing as a Parent Selector in CSS, so it simply isn’t possible for the time being. In this tutorial we will walk through a few cases where having a CSS… Continue reading Selecting Parent Elements with CSS and jQuery
Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed
What You’ll Be Creating What Is Google PageSpeed? Google PageSpeed is a free tool that assesses the performance and usability of your website for mobile and desktop platforms. It’s extra important because Google uses it in determining key elements of our SEO ranking, i.e. how high we appear in their search results. If you want more background… Continue reading Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed
Chart.js – Flexible JavaScript Charting for Developers
Posted · Category: Charts, MIT License Chart.js is a simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers. Chart.js merges configurations and options in a few places with the global defaults using chart type defaults and scales defaults. This way you can be as specific as you want in your individual chart configs, or change… Continue reading Chart.js – Flexible JavaScript Charting for Developers
Chartd – Responsive and Retina-Compatible Charts
Advertise here via BSA At StatHat, they make a lot of charts. They creates dynamic, autoupdating charts using JavaScript, but we also send charts via email and to external services like Campfire and Slack. Plus, they let users embed charts on their own web pages. For these situations, JavaScript charts either won’t work, are overkill, or could get… Continue reading Chartd – Responsive and Retina-Compatible Charts
New Course: Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins
What You’ll Be Creating The GreenSock Animation Platform is a powerful JavaScript library for animating HTML elements in the browser. In our new course, Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins, you will learn how to take your GSAP animations to the next level using the plugins that come with the platform. What You’ll Learn Our recent GreenSock Animation… Continue reading New Course: Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins
Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals
Without a doubt, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world. While the web development industry is chock full of frameworks and libraries that simplify some aspects of JavaScript development, there’s something to be said about having the skills to write pure JavaScript. Frameworks, libraries and transpilers may come and go, but JavaScript… Continue reading Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals
Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
The full screen splash is one of the most familiar patterns on the web at the moment. Some love it, some loath it, but whatever your feelings let’s take a look at some noteworthy examples and talk about best practices while we’re at it. A Note on Design Convergence The term “design convergence” refers to… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
How to Work With Images in Shopify
When starting out with a new platform, such as Shopify, there’s a lot to learn. Whilst Liquid, the template language used in Shopify themes, is very readable and easy to get started with, one area of Shopify development which can often cause confusion for new theme developers is images. I believe the main reason for… Continue reading How to Work With Images in Shopify
How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?
According to the most statistics that are recent on w3techs.com, significantly more than 89percent of sites presently utilize JavaScript as a client-side program writing language. As a cross-platform and programming that is lightweight, JavaScript makes it easier for programmers to build responsive websites and web applications that work with seamlessly with popular web browsers, operating… Continue reading How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?
How to Make Floating Input Labels With HTML5 Validation
TL;DR Replace your JavaScript validation with HTML5 validation. It’s easier than you think, and gives you a ton of markup and styling control. Try this demo: What We’re Doing Here So you need to validate a form. You do the right thing and start with server-side validation. Then, if you’re a good web-designer, you add… Continue reading How to Make Floating Input Labels With HTML5 Validation
15 Useful Modern Front-End Web Components
Here is list of useful modern front-end web components that can be integrated into your web applications. These components provide a quick and easy way for web developers to create custom user interface without having to start from scratch. Collection of tasty CSS-animated hamburger icons. Also included is the source as a Sass library. It’s… Continue reading 15 Useful Modern Front-End Web Components
The 15 Best Material Design Frameworks and Libraries
Material design was developed by Google, with the basic idea to create a unified style for all of the company’s web and mobile apps. It is based on many principles including things like proper animations, responsiveness, and smart usage of colors and shadows. You can read about the guidelines in full detail here. Although Google’s design language is… Continue reading The 15 Best Material Design Frameworks and Libraries