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Perhaps the most common syntactic error I find myself correcting in JavaScript is that of a simple missing comma separator on new lines. Such marginal oversights can become quite a burden to correct time and time again. Fortunately, there is a rather simple pattern which can be used to help …
keywords code review, design patterns, html5, javascript, object oriented design, refactoring, software engineering
When developing large scale web applications leveraging RequireJS, at times, even the most highly cohesive of modules will require quite a few other modules as dependencies. As such, maintaining the order of these dependencies can become somewhat tedious. Fortunately, RequireJS provides a means …
keywords agile, amd, code review, dependencies, javascript, object oriented design, refactoring, scale web, software engineering, web applications
One of the principle design philosophies I have advocated over the years, especially through various articles on this site, has been the importance of decoupling. And while I could go into significant detail to elaborate on the importance of decoupling, suffice it to say that all designs – …
Backbone.js provides a powerful, robust API which focuses primarily on general structure, and the utility of that structure, without requiring a rigid adherence to specific patterns or prescribing certain design philosophies. This focused approach affords developers a significant level of …
RequireJS provides an effective means of bundling an application for production deployment by way of the RequireJS Optimizer; which allows for optimizing, concatenating and minifying modules via Node or Rhino. The Optimizer is quite powerful in that it allows for some rather fine-grained control …
For some time now, I have primarily been using logic-less templating solutions as they allow for a greater separation of concerns in comparison to many of their logic-based counterparts. By design, the decoupling of logic-less templates imparts greater overall maintainability in that templates …
Lately I have been finding myself writing custom Jasmine matchers which wrap the Sinon.JS API as a convenience. After repeating this process quite a few times I took a step back to see if there was a similar solution already available. After a brief search, I quickly came across jasmine-sinon …
I have been evaluating Kendo UI recently for its rich set of Widget APIs and general HTML5 UI Framework capabilities. One of the first things I wanted to see was how easily Kendo UI Widgets could be integrated with different Templating Engines, Handlebars in particular. By default, Kendo UI …
Aptana Studio is a great IDE for developing Web Applications. The fact that it is built on Eclipse and completely free leaves little to be desired. That being said, there is one feature I have always found to be lacking, which is, the Outline View for JavaScript. Or, more precisely, the fact that …
When developing Mobile Web Applications, even the seemingly marginal micro-optimizations can result in a noticable performance improvement over time and, therefore should be implemented where possible. One could also argue (and rightly so) that this same principle applies when developing Web …
