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Data-Driven JavaScript Controls

Live-bound templates in CanJS can completely change how you build UI controls. When used correctly, live binding gives you far greater separation of concerns and code that is easier to understand and refactor. In this article, I’ll illustrate the clear advantages to using data-driven, live-bound UI controls, and show you how to implement this pattern in your own apps.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Avoid the Memory Leak Zombie Apocalypse

Memory leaks are an extremely common problem in JavaScript applications.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Introducing CanJS

This past Tuesday, at JSConf in Pheonix, Bitovi released CanJS (download). CanJS is the MVC parts of JavaScriptMVC, extracted into a single script download, with additional features that make it sizzle. There’s a lot of client-side MVC libraries out there, but this article will explain what sets CanJS apart from its competition.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Deferreds and 3.1

3.1 Backlog - Deferreds

jQuery 1.6 brought Deferred support. They are a great feature that promise to make a lot of asynchronous functionality easier to write and manage. But many people struggle with uses other than 'waiting for a bunch of Ajax requests to complete'. For JavaScriptMVC 3.1, we identified an extremely common but annoying practice that becomes a one-liner with deferreds: loading data and a template and rendering the result into an element.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Organizing A jQuery Application

Earlier this week, I realized that every organizing-a-jQuery-application blog, article, and conference talk misses the most important lesson on how to organize a jQuery app.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

A crash course in how DOM events work

DOM events are something that web developers often take for granted, especially with libraries like jQuery. The complexity and low-level mechanics of events are abstracted away. As far we're concerned, snippets like the following:

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

StealJS - Script Manager

There's a lot more to making JavaScript apps than writing JavaScript. StealJS is a collection of command and browser based JavaScript utilities that make building, packaging, sharing, and consuming JavaScript applications easy.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

How FuncUnit works

FuncUnit is a mashup of a bunch of awesome JavaScript projects. It can be useful knowing how they all work together to make FuncUnit tick. This article details the components and how they fit together. This is a primer for anyone wanting to contribute to FuncUnit.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

FuncUnit - Fun Web Application Testing

Last week we released Syn and mentioned how all testing solutions suffer from some fatal flaw. Today, we are releasing a beta of FuncUnit, which has "solved" JavaScript web application testing.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Tips on Hiring a jQuery Consultant

Before I share ideas on how to spot an excellent jQuery consultant or developer, a HUGE disclaimer:

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Document Fragments

Document Fragments kick ass for performance. Just ask John Resig. The following is code I used to convert a table's table-layout property from auto to fixed:

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel