In recent years there has been a constant drive to produce tools to make the job of developing web sites as painless as possible. One of the most useful group of tools has been boilerplates, which set up the basics and allow the developer to get up and running on a new project in double quick time. Workbench is a little different from other offerings in this field. It comes with the usual task helpers we now expect to see in boilerplates, but it also comes with JavaScript plugins — a feature more likely to...
In our final article on Gumby, I will talk to you about the extensions Gumby provides. They aren’t included in the main framework to make it more lightweight but you can install them separately to make your coding even easier. Bower ... These extensions should be installed with bower , if you have never heard of Bower it is basically, as their github page says, ‘a package manager for the web’. It allows you to install registered packages with just a simple command and to install it yourself you will...
Nowadays websites rely more and more on JavaScript to create dynamic interfaces, for some sites you may only need something like jQuery that works wonders when it comes to DOM manipulation but other times a template system may be more suitable, especially if your page will be constantly updating its data. Handlebars helps you with that by dynamically generating your HTML. It helps you get into using the View/Controller pattern while keeping your code cleaner and more maintainable. Using Handlebars...