Last month I had some time to take a closer look at how our website was performing from a pure speed perspective. It’s a pretty simple site, a bit less than 400kb total and very different from that of most …
Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is no longer static, CSS pre-processors are the norm, and JavaScript modules such as Require, Browserify or even coffeescript are also …
We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool,
Ginger
. In doing so, we built a new
JavaScript library
to communicate with our
django-rest-framework
powered API(s).
Inspired by
hood.ie
but aimed at custom API …
With things like
LESS
and
RequireJS
, we’re starting to use Node.js’s
npm
(think
pip
for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects …
If you’ve never heard of
Selenium
, put simply, it’s a tool that allows you to create tests that are run in the browser and interact with your UI in the same way as if you were manually testing your …
Etherpad
is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). In case you missed it, Etherpad was acquired by Google and after a community uproar decided to
release their code …