4 July 2016
Posts about JavaScript
3 July 2016
Introduction to creating DOM elements with yo-yo.js
A simple JS API for creating reusable elements that can be diffed and updated similar to React and other virtual dom modules – without the virtual part.
3 September 2015
Using cookies with browser-side GitHub auth
Allow GitHub login on your static sites.
24 August 2015
Using gatekeeper to authenticate to GitHub with browser-side JavaScript
Allow GitHub login on your static sites.
10 August 2015
Editing data with EditData.org
Edit some tabular data & save it to a GitHub gist with this open source tool.
23 November 2014
Making videos into GIFs on the command-line with gifify
Making gifs from videos using the command-line is easy using gifify.
8 October 2014
Learn JavaScript by adventuring around in the terminal
Learning to code online is cool. But sometimes people get to the end of a tutorial on a site like codecademy.com and then say, "wait, now how do I use that?"
16 September 2014
Making retro interactive art with gretro & gameloop
This will serve as a basic introduction to the gretro, a JavaScript module that provides an API for drawing 2D art on a canvas that has the style of a retro video game.
5 August 2014
Introduction to pixi.js
Pixi.js is a wonderful library dedicated to serving as a fast and simple rendering engine. It can be used with a number of other JavaScript game libraries, and can do both canvas and WebGL rendering.
17 June 2014
Using leaflet-draw with browserify
A while back I was working on a simple mapping project and wanted to use leaflet-draw with browserify. I discovered that there was "one weird trick" for getting everything working as expected.
17 March 2014
Exploring the open source 2048 game javascript examples
I spent a lot of time over the past few days playing this game called 2048, which is a clone of a game called 1024, which appears to be a clone of the game Threes.
17 March 2014
Experimenting with Gremlins.js and the canvas tag
The Gremlins.js library is designed for monkey testing (aka fuzz testing) applications by "unleashing a horde of undisciplined gremlins" that click, scroll, and otherwise cause havoc in the app they are released in. They mimic actual eve...
4 March 2014
Preloading and rendering image sprites in 2d js/canvas games
Learn about using the sprite-2d, load-images, and gameloop modules to create animations for 2d canvas/javascript games.
20 February 2014
Using Snap.svg with Browserify
It's not currently possible to use Snap.svg with Browserify by requiring the snapsvg package that's distributed on npm, but there is a workaround!
11 February 2014
Create a Node.js app that consumes APIs & is composed of small modules
September 7, 2014 update:
This tutorial now works with the localwiki.net api that the Seattle LocalWiki now uses.
6 February 2014
Creating standalone JavaScript library builds with browserify, watchify, and uglify-js
Recently I had the opportunity to use Browserify as one of the tools for creating a JavaScript module for a client that is building a mapping product for architects and urban planners.
28 January 2014
JavaScript string method usage examples
Here is a collection of common and useful string methods that exist in Javascript.
22 January 2014
Setting up a JavaScript / Node.js development environment
The most difficult part of getting started with a language isn't necessarily learning the syntax, data types, control structures, or other parts of the language itself. The hardest part is often learning the tools associated with the language&...
17 January 2014
On making simple games quickly with crtrdg.js
Check out this simple implementation of pong I made in a few hours last night: sethvincent.github.io/digital-table-tennis-for-two
22 December 2013
Using Browserify with Express
In this brief post we'll take a look at using express, a popular web app framework for node.js, with browserify, a tool for bundling javascript modules written in node.js style for the browser.
30 November 2013
A collection of useful Snap.svg resources
Snap.svg resources
Snap.svg is a new SVG library targeting modern browsers. It is an open source project released by Adobe, and created by the same developer that created Raphael.js.
24 November 2013
A collection of useful Browserify resources
I've been using, reading, and writing about the development tool Browserify for a while, and thought it would be useful to compile some of the most useful resources for learning more about the tool.
23 November 2013
Backbone & jQuery meet Browserify: easy.
Using browserify with modules from npm can be a little overwhelming at first, so what if we were able to use a couple of common front-end development libraries using along with browserify to ease the process of getting started?
16 November 2013
A super simple starting point for 2d javascript games
Here's the goal: I wanted the smallest and simplest starting point for 2d games I could come up with, using a clear and concise API.
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