The world of web development keeps expanding as new frameworks, libraries and plugins are created everyday. To keep you up to date with all the cool toys, we made this collection of our favorite JavaScript and CSS tools you should try in February 2016. Super Simple Slider Super simple slider is jQuery plugin which provides you with a functional and… Continue reading 20 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2016
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9 Useful Javascript Color libraries
Here are 9 useful Javascript libraries which allow you to perform many different manipulations on colors. Colorify Colorify is a script written in Javascript, that allows you to extract colors from images, and manipulates them. From a simple plain color, based on the dominant color, to a beautiful gradient based on the image edges colors,… Continue reading 9 Useful Javascript Color libraries
Card Stack Effects With CSS and Dynamics.js
This is some effect inspiration for card stacks. The idea is to show animation ideas for positive (accept) or negative (reject) feedback on a generic card element. Animation is at the top element of a stack by clicking on an accept or reject button.These kind of animations can fit into many scenarios involving all kinds… Continue reading Card Stack Effects With CSS and Dynamics.js
How to Create an Elastic SVG Progress Loading Bar
Codrops has published a tutorial of how to create an elastic SVG progress loader based on the Dribbble shot “Download” by xjw and implemented with SVG and TweenMax. The button starts as an icon with an arrow and once it’s clicked, it animates into a fun little wire and a label that indicates the download… Continue reading How to Create an Elastic SVG Progress Loading Bar
Understanding JavaScript Comparison Operators: Equality
The primary difference between arithmetic and comparison operators is that comparison operators don’t change values; instead, they compare them, producing a true or false evaluation. As such, they are frequently used in branching decisions, such as if conditions. In comparisons, equality operators compare two operands, checking if they are equal or not. The greatest source… Continue reading Understanding JavaScript Comparison Operators: Equality
Generating SVG With React
React1 is one of today’s most popular ways to create a component-based UI. It helps to organize an application into small, human-digestible chunks. With its “re-render the whole world” approach, you can avoid any complex internal interactions between small components, while your application continues to be blazingly fast due to the DOM-diffing that React does… Continue reading Generating SVG With React
Code Clinic JavaScript
Successful programmers know more than a computer language. They also know how to thinkabout solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series of ten courses where lynda.com authors solve the same problems using different programming languages. Here, Ray Villalobos works… Continue reading Code Clinic JavaScript
Fullscreen Scrolling Tiles with pagePiling.js
Parallax and page scrolling plugins are rather popular among the open source community. A new one to add into the mix is pagePiling.js. This completely free open source plugin runs on top of jQuery for a unique “slide” design. Each section of the page slides out of the way while scrolling. It’s not exactly parallax,… Continue reading Fullscreen Scrolling Tiles with pagePiling.js
Making Accessibility Simpler, With Ally.js
I’ve been a web developer for 15 years, but I’d never looked into accessibility. I didn’t know enough people with (serious) disabilities to properly understand the need for accessible applications and no customer has ever required me to know what ARIA is. But I got involved with accessibility anyway – and that’s the story I’d… Continue reading Making Accessibility Simpler, With Ally.js
Create a MEAN Stack Google Map App (Part I)
Introduction “MEAN Apps with Google Maps” (A tongue twister to be true). And yet, whether you’re building an application to visualize bike lanes in your city, designing a tool to chart oil wells across the globe, or are simply creating an app to help choose your next date — having access to interactive, data-rich maps… Continue reading Create a MEAN Stack Google Map App (Part I)
Making MEAN Apps with Google Maps (Part II)
Introduction Welcome back! Last time, we created an application that integrated Google Maps directly into the MEAN stack. The app provided us a panel to create users, tag their location based on latitude and longitude, and validate their whereabouts using HTML5 geolocation. As of this writing, over 150 users have added themselves to our demo… Continue reading Making MEAN Apps with Google Maps (Part II)
Free Hand-Picked Resources for Designers and Developers – December edition
In this round up of free resources from december, you’ll find nice flat device mockups, unique UI screen compositions, color tools and inspiration, vector kits, professional printing templates, online communities, stunning icon collections, a curated list of CSS frameworks, a useful animation engine, cool fonts, and web templates in PSD format. All of it is… Continue reading Free Hand-Picked Resources for Designers and Developers – December edition
A Simple Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery
I’ve covered basic image galleries with CSS and PHP in previous articles, making it time to do the same thing with JavaScript. Image Options As with the other image gallery examples, we need a two versions of each image: a thumbnail image and a full-size image. In this case, you have two options for the… Continue reading A Simple Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery
Animated Map Path for Interactive Storytelling
Today we’d like to share an experimental demo with you. This demo is an interactive map that will animate a map path while scrolling the page. The main idea is to connect the story being told with the path itself. The journey can also contain images that will indicate where they have been taken with… Continue reading Animated Map Path for Interactive Storytelling
Angular 2 Beta is Now Available
AngularJS has been rising in popularity and is under steady development. Earlier today, Angular 2 Beta was announced, and is available for developers to download and get started with. Angular 2 comes with several new enhancements and features, and is expected to be a major upgrade from Angular 1. The Beta release, obviously, is not… Continue reading Angular 2 Beta is Now Available
Multi-Level Menu : A simple menu with multiple levels
This is a simple multi-level menu with delayed item animations and an optional breadcrumb navigation and back button. The idea is to animate each menu item once a level is changed. The animation starts with the item clicked and the delays are propagated through the neighbors. The animation delays follow the same logic for the… Continue reading Multi-Level Menu : A simple menu with multiple levels
Stretchy Navigation in CSS and jQuery
Would you like a Stretchy Navigation in CSS and jQuery? It’s a rounded navigation trigger that stretches on click/tap to reveal the navigation items. There are 3 different user cases where this snippet would be useful: 1) fixed navigation, 2) add content button and 3) edit content button. The HTML structure is pretty basic: a… Continue reading Stretchy Navigation in CSS and jQuery
15 Handy Tools for Smooth Web Development
We’re not ones to adhere to stereotypes, but it’s probably been a while since a (stereo) typical web developer shaved his damn beard, or changed his clothes, or took a bath, or shaved that damn beard… You really can’t blame them. It’s been a while since all developers took a breather. 2015 has been a… Continue reading 15 Handy Tools for Smooth Web Development
Simple to Use jQuery Plugin to Animate SVG Paths
jQuery DrawSVG uses the jQuery built-in animation engine to transition the stroke on every inside the selected <svg> element, using stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset properties. It weights less than 2KB minified and 800 bytes gzipped. It’s easy to use with easing and stagger support. Best of all, it’s completely Free! Requirements: jQuery Framework Demo: http://lcdsantos.github.io/jquery-drawsvg/ License:… Continue reading Simple to Use jQuery Plugin to Animate SVG Paths
Brunch is your premiere HTML5 Build Tool running on Node
I recently stumbled onto an interesting build tool by the name of Brunch. This seems to be made for constructing picture-perfect HTML files without a lot of hooey. Brunch is made to compile scripts, templates, and lint all of your code automatically. Modules can also be run during this time & applied to the compiled… Continue reading Brunch is your premiere HTML5 Build Tool running on Node
Page Stack Navigation Template with CSS & JavaScript
Codrops has just published a Page Stack Navigation template for a simple page stack navigation based on the Dribbble shot by Ilya Kostin, Stacked navigation. The idea is to show a navigation when clicking on the menu button and transform all pages in 3D and move them to the bottom of the viewport. The next… Continue reading Page Stack Navigation Template with CSS & JavaScript
9 Newest Free jQuery Plugins For This Week August 2015
Here’s our best collection of 9 Newest Free jQuery Plugin with examples we found around the web from last week (17/07/2015 to 23/07/2015). These jQuery plugins haven’t been featured on our website yet I think you might find useful. Have fun with it and remember to spread the word! Full Screen Form Fullscreen step by… Continue reading 9 Newest Free jQuery Plugins For This Week August 2015
Bonsai.js – An Intuitive Graphics API and SVG Renderer
Bonsai is a lightweight graphics library with an intuitive graphics API and an SVG renderer. Bonsai’s main features include: Architecturally separated runner and renderer, iFrame, Worker and Node running contexts, Shapes, Paths, Assets (Videos, Images, Fonts, SubMovies), Keyframe and regular animation (easing functions too), Shape/path morphing and much more… Requirements: JavaScript Framework Demo: http://bonsaijs.org/ License:… Continue reading Bonsai.js – An Intuitive Graphics API and SVG Renderer
40 Free JS Libraries for Dynamic Content
Designers and developers can recognize the vast improvements in modern web design. From animated SVGs to customized web forms and movable typography, the list is practically endless. Dynamic content is the new norm and JavaScript libraries only make creation easier. If you’re looking for some cool dynamic effects on your website take a look at… Continue reading 40 Free JS Libraries for Dynamic Content