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Traceur-TodoMVC – a Backbone.js app written with ES6 26 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
I’m pleased to present a re-write of the Backbone TodoMVC app using ECMAScript 6 features such as classes, modules and fat-arrow syntax. Check out the literate version of the source code as we’ve fill...
Release the Kraken! Announcing Yeoman 1.0 25 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
Last week, I had the pleasure of ‘officially’ releasing Yeoman 1.0 live at BrazilJS. Our core team (incl. Paul, Sindre, Pascal and Stephen) as well as our contributors put a great deal of love and eff...
Detecting Critical CSS For Above-the-Fold Content With Paul Kinlan (Video) 21 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
In this video, Paul and I demo a new experimental bookmarklet he wrote for detecting critical CSS for above the fold content. External CSS stylesheets are render-blocking, meaning the browser won’t pa...
Tracking ECMAScript 6 Support 18 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
ECMAScript 6 is being progressively implemented by browser vendors over time and as such there is no ETA on it being available in all environments. Whilst specs and implementations continue to mature,...
Checking in front-end dependencies 30 Jul 2013 | 05:11 pm
Package management is an important and evolving area in front-end development. It’s also a contentious one with some favoring Bower, others preferring npm and Browserify and a number remaining undecid...
Making Maven Grunt. 23 Jul 2013 | 07:37 pm
Introduction Developers working in agencies often tell us that they want to be able to use modern front-end tooling in their workflow. One set of options this manifests as is using Grunt for their bui...
Gone In 60 Frames Per Second: A Pinterest Paint Performance Case Study 12 Jun 2013 | 08:28 pm
In my new article with Paul Lewis on Smashing Magazine, we discuss how to improve the paint performance of your websites and Web apps. This is an area that we Web developers have only recently started...
Jank Busting With Daft Punk 17 May 2013 | 01:35 am
Yesterday, I looked at the new Daft Punk web experience on Pitchfork. It was visually stunning, featuring rich-animations throughout. I noticed however that scrolling on the page felt quite janky. It ...
Author In ES6, Transpile To ES5 As A Build-step: A Workflow For Grunt 30 Apr 2013 | 01:26 am
Preface: This article assumes prior knowledge of Grunt, the JavaScript task runner and that you've heard of Traceur, the ES.next to ES5 transpiler by Google. Getting started guides are available for b...
Taming The Unicorn: Easing JavaScript Memory Profiling In Chrome DevTools 11 Apr 2013 | 06:32 pm
“The Unicorn has a special ability to help it's master when in trouble. When tamed, they will not attack humans or tamed creatures, but will attack anything else with negative karma" The DevTools Heap...
