Category: JavaScript

Tutorials and snippets to get started with CoffeeScript

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 5 Comments

JavaScript is definitely an important part of a website as it allow the developer to interact directly with the web browser. Since 2005, lots of new JavaScript techniques and tools such as Ajax and jQuery became extremely popular and made the web a better place. Today, I’m introducing to you CoffeeScript, a new language that make JavaScript better and simpler.

10 awesome jQuery snippets

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 21 Comments

jQuery gave a new life to JavaScript coding. Thanks to this great tool, it is now possible to build powerful and responsive web pages. In this article, I have compiled 10 jQuery snippets that will definitely help you in your daily client-side coding.

10 super useful tools for JavaScript developers

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 10 Comments

In recent years, JavaScript has proven that it has to be taken seriously because it can really enhance the web, not only provide some cheap effects such as blinking text. In this article, I have compiled the 10 most amazing tools and script for all JavaScript developers.

8 awesome new jQuery plugins to have in your toolbox

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 11 Comments

jQuery is by far my favorite Javascript framework, which allows developers to create stunning visual effects, manipulate data properly, and much more. In this article, I have compiled 8 new and totally awesome jQuery plugins that all web developers should have in their toolbox.

Best practices for modern Javascript development

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 41 Comments

Javascript is definitely a very popular language on the web, and every web developer has to deal with it someday. For this article I have compiled a non-exhaustive list of good practices that will help you to become a better javascript developer.

How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 21 Comments

For years, Flash was the only solution to display a dynamic chart on a website. But thanks to modern techniques, the dying Flash isn’t needed anymore. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how easy it is to transform a basic HTML table into a profesionnal looking chart using visualize.js, a very useful jQuery plugin.

Manipulating the DOM with jQuery: 10+ useful code snippets

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 31 Comments

The Document Object Model is an API which allows developers to access, read, and modify the content of a web page. In this article, I’m going to show you 10+ extremely useful code snippets to manipulate the DOM using jQuery.

Top 10 best practices for front-end web developers

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 93 Comments

Front-end web developent can seem to be easy at first, but producing a clean, semantic, and cross-browser code is definitely a hard job. In this article, I have compiled the top 10 best practices that have been useful to me in the past 3 years.