You can get started right away on your React Native project by installing Deco and creating a new project — it's fast and there's no manual setup needed. File scaffolding handles your boilerplate. Ready-made components drop right into your code. Properties are graphically editable through the property inspector. It's an entirely new way to write, tweak, and re-use code.

WebGazer.js is an eye tracking library that uses common webcams to infer the eye-gaze locations of web visitors on a page in real time. The eye tracking model it contains self-calibrates by watching web visitors interact with the web page and trains a mapping between the features of the eye and positions on the screen.

Cancelable Promises have advanced to stage 1 at TC39.                                                  

When released, jQuery 3.0 will become the only version of jQuery. The 1.12 and 2.2 branches will continue to receive critical support patches for a while, but will not get any new features or major revisions.

Adrian Sandu explores the various web development practices that are no longer required now that Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer 6-10.

It’s understandable why web developers haven’t paid much attention to autofill. When you’re filling out forms with test data on a regular basis, autofill tends to get in the way.

But autofill is an important feature for our users. Google has found that “users complete forms up to 30% faster” when using autofill.

Find all of the Web and Chrome sessions from Google I/O 2016 in one place.

npm, a.k.a. the Node Package Manager, is a developer-friendly command-line package manager included with Node.js. It makes it super-easy to install other people's JavaScript packages to extend your projects as well as publish your own JavaScript code with the world.

Dan Prince demonstrates how you can bend JavaScript to your will by writing your own Babel plugin (in this case adding immutable data by default).

MobX had an amazing few weeks! It has just hit 2000 stars on GitHub. There’s been tremendous interest from the React Amsterdam talk. In addition, MobX’s excellent out-of-the-box performance characteristics have been garnering attention from the React community.

The box-shadow property is a CSS3 property that allows us to create shadow effects on almost any element, similar to the drop shadows we can create in design software. These shadow effects allow us to create the illusion of depth in an otherwise flat, 2-dimensional-looking page.

You may have heard of JavaScript "hoisting" variables in a function, but you're not sure what it means. You'd like to be sure, so you don't make any mistakes related to variable declarations. "What does variable hoisting mean?"

Lots of discussion about progressive web apps recently, with a general consensus among forward-thinking web people that this is the way we should be building things for the web from now on.

Elliot Bentley takes a look at his code. Where it was two years ago, where it's now, and in what direction it's evolving.

jQuery is so popular that your grandparents probably know its API and it is still completely useful.

Scroll effect / Image transition test for a project using PIXI for Webgl abstraction. Effect is made by drawing the image, scaling x, applying threshold and using that as a mask.

There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.

Learn how you can implement a local Node.js authentication strategy using Passport.js and Redis.

Personal side projects are a cornerstone of creative growth and discovery. While they might not always result in financial gain, the long-term benefits are often much more useful. Benefits such as personal growth, creative exploration and generation of professional opportunities are some of the reasons to engage in them. In this article, we’ll explore these benefits, as well as learn how to decide on a project and how to effectively manage our time (using my recently launched project an an example).