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How to Integrate Other Libraries using Symbols
CanJS, for better or worse, allows a near endless variety of design choices. If you like MVC, MVVM, centralized state management, etc, you can build your app that way. Enabling this level of...
Coping with Stateful Code
In this article we will: Learn why stateful packages challenge stability See an example of a stateful package Identify CanJS’s stateful packages Provide strategies that minimize the problems with...
HTTP/2 in DoneJS
The DoneJS core team has been experimenting with HTTP/2 for the past several months and the outcome is strong HTTP/2 support in DoneJS! HTTP/2 contains some exciting new features that we've...
Removing Side Effects - some juice isn't worth the squeeze
In this article, we will: Learn about modules with side effects Understand how CanJS removed side effects in plugins See a preview of how plugins in views might work
How to Manage Code Across Many Independent Repositories
The first, and most important step to supporting stability and innovation within CanJS's codebase has been breaking up CanJS into individual repositories, each with its own npm package and semantic...
Stable and Innovative Code Bases
CanJS’s mission is to make sure the code you write today is valuable years in the future. This starts by ensuring CanJS is thriving despite constantly changing techniques and technology. We’ve...
How To Use NDJSON Streams with can-connect
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...
Faster Page Loads: How to Use NDJSON to Stream API Responses
Ever wish you could send your data as a stream so that the client can start manipulating it and rendering it as it arrives? Tired of waiting for your entire JSON object to resolve before your users...
How to Hire Better Developers by Learning from Used Car Markets
In many ways, hiring software services is similar to buying a used car. In this article, I’ll show how you can use research on used car market economics to improve your ability to hire high quality...
Utilizing HTTP2 PUSH in a Single Page Application
Web application startup time has a big impact on user engagement. When writing client-side applications, we deal with this problem in a variety of ways such as:
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
The Nine Principles Of Design Implementation
Recently, I was leading a training session for one of our clients on best practices for implementing designs using HTML and CSS. Part of our time included a discussion of...
every test and demo page you want to make.
Smashing Magazine Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
Free Web App Checklist
We use a set of checklists to keep us on track and ensure reproducible quality on every project.
