Dropdown list is one of the most common web UI component, but yet one of the most difficult to implement. Recently I was working on a navigation dropdown list with animation. But this time, I implemented it with RxJS, wh
Angular.js is a fasnating framework that including a lots of interesting features.
One of the unique feature in Angular.js is dependency injection,
instead of requiring and injecting the dependencies, Angular.js creates a special component to find the dependencies according to parameter names and pass it through the function:
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Jquery is a great library, it makes manipulating DOM element and browser really simple and easy.
As a web developer, jQuery is our day to day tool. However, sometimes it just too convenience that
we forget how to make web page without it. It is important to go back to see how jQuery handle and wrap
the DOM api and provide the simple interface for us.
Angular.js comes with a simple compatible implementation of jQuery, called JQLite.
JQLite is used internally for angular.element if user doesn’t include jQuery, as a
replacement for jQuery. It only have 1000 lines of code with lots comments,
So it’s a good starting point to understand how jQuery works.
Node.js provides asynchronous I/O base on event loop.
When reading and writing from filesystem or sending http request,
Node.js can process other events when waiting for response, which we called it non-blocking I/O.
Stream is an extend of this concept, it provides an event base I/O interface to
save memory buffers and bandwidth.
Recently I am preparing the interview with some companies in West Coast.
One of the problem I have during the preparation, which is because I am a vim user,
It is uncomfortable to practice algorithm questions on TopCoder, so I think it would be great if I have a npm tool that can
download algorithm problems and provide some skeleton test case for practice.
Therefore I created Code-Warrior
Bacon.js is an FRP module for events on javascript. Which can transform
your event listener/handler to a functional event stream. After servey a few blogs and example project,
I found it is a really interesting concept and can make event handling speghetti code into clear functional logics.
First, what is event stream?
Actually it is nothing special, it is just an event listener that listen to specific event.
For example,
$("#clickme").on('click', function(event){ alert(event.target)})
Can transfer to event stream by Bacon.js’s asEventStream helper:
clicked = $("#clickme").asEventStream('click')
And add handler to event stream, listen to click event:
clicked.onValue(function(event){ alert(event.target) })
Bigpipe is an unique frontend technique used by Facebook to increase their page rendering speed.
When I read the article talk about bigpipe on facebook, I was pretty shocked about how facebook implements those unique ideas to
increase their page rendering speed.
Recently I am using node.js for web development, I think the async structure of node is a perfect environment to use this technique, so I wrote a small experiments app with express:
Event loop is the core feature in node.js,
and is also the reason why it is better on handling requests and realtime communication like long polling.
The reason is on this is because the I/O is expensive:
Few days ago, I started to work on a simple url shortener. The original idea was from one of my friends, he mentioned about the idea of implement a simple and deployable url shortener. This idea just popout my head when I was working on other side project. So I spend a few days working on it and it turns out to be an interesting project that I want to blog about:
A url shortener, as its name, is a application that provide user a shorter version of url. Like the most famous one: tinyurl.com, which map the url address into a short sequence of code, like tinyurl.com/ccxngqo. Make user easier to share the link on social media like twitter or forum.
Recently I was looking for web frameworks on Node.js. There are Tower.js, Railway, GeddyJS, SocektStream, Meteor and lots of cool framework on Node.js. However, Express, which created in the beginning of Node.js era, is still a very stable and easy to use framework with the most plugin and community support. Therefore, I think it is a good candidate as my 2nd source code review project.
Express.js is developed by TJ Holowaychuk, who rebuild the web development on Node.js with express, jade, mocha, stylus and more. Express is inspired by the simple of Sinatra provide a simple and elegant interface for http request, also with connect middle support that let user can easily extend the framework.