Earlier last month CanJS 4.0 was released bringing a load of new features. We heard early (while 4.0 was still in prerelease, in fact), that DoneJS users wanted to upgrade. Once 4.0 was out we had to answer a tough question: do we wait on a new breaking StealJS release, add other features, or release a DoneJS 2.0 right away?
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Design 
The most difficult part of any design process can be finding the correct, best, or most successful idea out of all possible ideas out there. In User Experience (UX) we start by finding empathy with the user, researching user preferences, successes and failures, and understanding the needs of the clients. However, even armed with research and understanding, discovering or uncovering the correct solution out of all the possible solutions out in the world can still be problematic. Used appropriately, sketching is a fantastic way to generate new ideas without the usual constraints we put on ourselves with technology.
Sketching is a simple, inexpensive way to find solutions and weed-out errors.
The Bitovi Team
Design
I’m super excited about CSS grid, because finally there’s a way to layout pages and achieve more interesting and dynamic results, without a ton of code! So since I fell in love with Atom IDE recently (I know, I’m late to the party, but really I like it 😺), then it’s no surprise that I will be using it for this example on CSS grid layout.
The Bitovi Team
Design
The heart of creating a LSG is the ability to put your documentation right where it belongs: in the source code. Chances are that you are already documenting your code, which is a great opportunity to take it to the next level by using a style guide generator that can turn those comments into an organized site, letting others (and yourself from the future) know why and what has been done in the code.
The Bitovi Team
Design
While the bulk of your LSG documentation will come from special comments that you add to the source code, you can also create standalone pages where you can host other types of content that are not specific to the code (think of design principles, accessibility guidelines, or pull request guidelines). This gives you the advantage of centralizing your documentation in one place: your application living style guide.
The Bitovi Team
Design
Using a living style guide (LSG) to drive development is a practice that is gaining a lot of popularity because its many advantages, including code efficiency and UI consistency. But, how can you create one? What should you include? And where do you even start? In this 3 part tutorial I will delve into the nitty-gritty details of creating a living style using DocumentCSS.
The Bitovi Team
Bitovi
In our previous post, we talked about how to improve an app’s performance and user experience by incrementally updating our app’s UI as we received a stream of data from our API. Our example app was built on the Fetch API and can-ndjson-stream to get a ReadableStream of NDJSON and render the stream in our app.
The Bitovi Team