ESLint v3.0.0 released

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Servo Nightly Builds Available

Nightly builds of the Servo web rendering engine are now available!
Note: The engine is not yet fully web compatible.

node-nightly

node-nightly at your finger tips!

why-did-you-update

Puts your console on blast when React is making unnecessary updates.

react-a11y

Identifies accessibility issues in your React.js elements

Introduction to Developing jQuery Plugins

Learn how to easily reuse your code by developing jQuery plugins. Simon Codrington's introduction will show you the techniques to create drop-in UI widgets.

An Introduction To Redux

Redux is one of many libraries in front-end development. Alex Bachuk explains the benefits and how Redux can be used in your personal projects.

CSS Image Replacement: text-indent, Negative Margins and more

Baljeet Rathi explores the history of the many CSS image replacement techniques used by web developers to this day and looks at their pros and cons.

Content Jumping (and How To Avoid It)

Few things are as annoying on the web as having the page layout unexpectedly change or shift while you're trying to view or interact with it. This layout shifting is especially frustrating on mobile devices, where a big enough change can push all familiar content off screen and cause a visitor to completely lose her bearings.

Everything you could ever want to know (and more) about controlling the Referer header

The Referer header dates back to the beginning of HTTP and has the dubious honour of being the only header standardised with a misspelt name.

The Difference Between Minification and Gzipping

These are both things that you do to assets on your website. They are both things that reduce the size of the file, making it more efficient in crossing the network between servers and browsers. But these two things are distinctly different. If you didn't already know that, it's worth understanding.

The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields

Cobra Effect is a solution to a problem that actually makes the whole thing a lot worse. A modern example of the cobra effect: "For your security, we have disabled pasting of passwords"

Progressive Web Apps isn’t a Google-only thing

Progressive Web Apps isn’t a technology, but a terminology which describes rich website in a way of quality and ability to progress as an application to user’s device.

The Languages Which Almost Became CSS

When HTML was announced by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How given HTML tags were rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences. It seemed, however, like a good idea to create a standard way for pages to ‘suggest’ how they might prefer to be rendered stylistically.

How to implement a programming language

This is a tutorial on how to implement a programming language. If you ever wrote an interpreter or a compiler, then there is probably nothing new for you here.

#NetflixAndChill: How Netflix Scales with Node.js and Containers

It wasn’t too long ago that Netflix was just a DVD company. Now the company streams content around the globe and produces its own original programming.

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Google's monolithic repository provides a common source of truth for tens of thousands of developers around the world.