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Lessons from a Decade of JavaScript Consulting: Bitovi’s 10 Core Principles

Bitovi’s core mission is simple: deliver amazing applications.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Be proactive, not reactive - Faster DOM updates via change propagation

 

The Bitovi Team

The Bitovi Team

Object.observe is dead, long live ES6 Proxies

Observables and "computed" values are something that every modern framework provides in some fashion. Frameworks that have explicit observables and computed values (Ember, Knockout, CanJS, etc) can provide high performance updates and, in my opinion, a more natural development experience.

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

Routing in CanJS

Understanding Routing in CanJS

Understanding routing in CanJS can be a hurdle for new developers. In this article, we'll demystify CanJS's routing, so you can start using it today.

The Bitovi Team

The Bitovi Team

Longevity (or Lack Thereof) in JavaScript Frameworks

Every six months, a hot new framework hits the mainstream, and our community explodes with excitement.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

5 Easy Steps for Building Reusable Web Components

Good developers and managers understand the concept of extensibility: implementing while considering future growth.

Kyle Gifford

Kyle Gifford

Get Started with StealJS and ES6 in 5 Minutes

Somedays it feels like JavaScript is always changing, and it is hard to keep up. It is even harder when you’ve spent countless hours, blood, sweat and tears to get your build tools working.

The Bitovi Team

The Bitovi Team

Design

Style Guide Driven Development: A How To Guide To Improve your Development Workflow

Style Guide Driven Development (SGDD) is a fairly new term I first heard from Nicole Sullivan’s talk about her experience on a project for Pivotal Labs. But thinking about some more, I realized SGDD is, at a high level, a practice many are already doing: developing components and documenting them in a style guide.

The Bitovi Team

The Bitovi Team

3 Steps to Mobile First Modules in LESS

When I first started mobile first design I used a pretty rigid template for my LESS files. All my designs were split across 5 or so LESS files named: mobile.less, tablet.less, desktop.less, etc. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but I quickly created a mess of impossible to maintain rubbish. I realized, I needed to embrace modules. Here is how I tackled the challenge of creating a maintainable UI library that was mobile first, responsive, and modular.

The Bitovi Team

The Bitovi Team

Design

Live Style Guides for Teams, Powered by DocumentJS

A team with both designers and developers needs a simple resource to share a project's styles and best practices. DocumentCSS generates a Live Style Guide so style documentation evolves along with the project. This project was built with the belief that a united team goal does not change the needs of individual roles. Whether you're an engineer, a designer, or somewhere in-between: we're building this for you.

The Bitovi Team

The Bitovi Team

JavaScript Frameworks Don't Matter - The Real Reasons Why Projects Fail

In this article, we'll discuss the results of Bitovi's checklist experiment and what key lessons we learned about making projects successful.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel