Since we're using a RESTful API, that's all the information Backbone needs to be able to create, read, update, and delete all of our book information! Let's start by making a new book.

How to use Backbone to structure and maintain JS in Wordpress

Think Google can't handle JavaScript? Think again. Contributor Adam Audette shares the results of a series of tests conducted by his colleagues at Merkle | RKG to examine how different JavaScript functions would be crawled and indexed by Google.

certainlyakey starred coryhouse/react-slingshot

Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. It works as:

a mailing list
a discussion forum
a long-form chat room

In this tutorial, I'm targeting the third group I mentioned: people who know just enough jQuery to get by.

Last month I noted my opinions on why we should stop using Grunt, Gulp et al. I suggested we should start using npm instead. npm's scripts directive can do everything that these build tools can, more succinctly, more elegantly, with less package dependencies and less maintainence overhead. The first draft of the original post was way over 6,000 words - because it went in depth into how npm could be used as an alternative, but I removed it for brevity - and because the point of that post was me expressing opinions, not a tutorial post. However, the response was pretty overwhelming - many people replied telling me that these build tools offers them features that npm cannot (or does not), some developers were brazen enough to present me with a Gruntfile and say "how could this be done in npm?!". I thought I'd pull out how-tos from the original draft and make a new post, just focussing on how to do these common tasks with npm.

npm is a fantastic tool that offers much more than meets the eye. It has become the backbone of the Node.js community - many, including me, use it pretty much every day. In fact, looking at my Bash History (well, Fish history) npm is second only to git as my most used command. Still, I find new features in npm every day (and of course, new ones are still being developed!). Most of these aim at making npm a great package manager, but npm has a great subset of functionality decidated to running tasks to facilitate in a packages lifecycle - in other words, it is a great tool for build scripts.

Framer.js is an open source JavaScript framework for rapid prototyping. Framer.js allows you to define animations and interactions, complete with filters, spring physics, 3D effects and more. It's bundled with Framer Generator, an application that allows you to import layers directly out of Photoshop and Sketch.

Font‑To‑Width (FTW!) is a script by Nick Sherman and Chris Lewis that takes advantage of large type families to fit pieces of text snugly within their containers. Unlike other text-fitting tools like FitText.js, Font‑To‑Width does not scale the font-size (at least not by default). Instead, it chooses a width or weight variant according to what fits best, and then allows for letter- and word-spacing adjustments as needed.

Simply put, CSSgram is a library for editing your images with Instagram-like filters directly in CSS. What we're doing here is adding filters to the images as well as applying color and/or gradient overlays via various blending techniques to mimic these effects. This means less manual image processing and more fun filter effects on the web!

Rextester - some online tools for anyone who finds them useful. It was started as online .net regex tester.

Automatically switch to a darker or a lighter version of an element depending on the brightness of images behind it.

Smooth parallax effect on vertical page scrolling

Angular vs Backbone vs React vs Ember notes

The fundamental idea I want to discuss is the definition of an application’s UI as a pure function of application state.

React is about ideas as much as it is technology. For this piece, I'm going to go through the big ideas of React and look at 3 of them that developers working on other frameworks (and Backbone in particular) can learn from. There's a lot more to React and its community than just these 3 ideas, so I'll also include some extra resources at the bottom for those interested in learning more about it.

Thimble is an online code editor (with nice viewer animations!) that makes it easy to create and publish your own web pages while learning HTML, CSS & JavaScript.

jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.
If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement. If you're only targeting more modern browsers, you might not need anything more than what the browser ships with.
At the very least, make sure you know what jQuery is doing for you, and what it's not. Some developers believe that jQuery is protecting us from a great demon of browser incompatibility when, in truth, post-IE8, browsers are pretty easy to deal with on their own.

nanoScroller.js is a jQuery plugin that offers a simplistic way of implementing Mac OS X Lion-styled scrollbars for your website. It uses minimal HTML markup being .nano > .nano-content. The other scrollbar div elements .pane > .nano-slider are added during run time to prevent clutter in templating. The latest version utilizes native scrolling and works with the iPad, iPhone, and some Android Tablets.

The mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight jQuery date & time input picker.