I love the sugar API of RequireJS. It’s elegant, clean and nearly identical to CommonJS. However, the examples often fail to demonstrate how to use it from a main.js file which does a require call, rather than a define. Doing something like this is quite useful, particularly when your config object is not a require call in itself: (function(config, require,… Read more →
Nearly two years ago, I started work on Epitome, an MVC framework for MooTools. And today, it’s pretty stable and a viable project to use, if you have MooTools in your stack, rather than jQuery. Unfortunately, less and less people use MooTools these days, myself included. This made Epitome redundant – and yet I wanted to continue using the API…. Read more →
So, Object.observe will become a standard at some point. In the meanwhile, you may want to unobtrusively log any methods called on an object from the outside. So I wrote this little snippet that helps me do just that. Object.monitor = function(obj, quiet){ var keys = (function(obj){ // include from prototype also, any function. var keys = [], key; for… Read more →
In the previous article, a number of things got covered that help with npm modules you’d want to use in your node.js projects. This is a continuation. anything in a require() is an npm module, installable via npm install name Interaction with the OS require(‘node-growl’) – Growl is a OSX style notification system, also available for windows or linux. node-growl… Read more →
We waited for ages for MooTools prime to come out and to get adopted and for web builds to show up and to become more MooTools-y. And then, we thought (me and the Grookedge who’s also a MooTools fanboi): So primish was born. Primish is just like a fork of prime that works in a browser. Out of the box….. Read more →
If you are a front-end developer that has dabbled a little bit in node and like it, you probably need to build a list of tools (npm modules etc) you can use in your day-to-day development. Here’s a small list of things I find I often reuse in different projects. anything in a require() is an npm module, installable via… Read more →
This is a somewhat underused and lesser known feature of HTML5 localStorage API. The spec says: The storage event is fired when a storage area changes, as described in the previous two sections (for session storage, for local storage). When this happens, the user agent must queue a task to fire an event with the name storage, which does not… Read more →
Just a quick update, Epitome now supports nodejs. Here’s an example creating a server via express and socket.io with a collection and a model that can be shared on the client as well: #!/usr/bin/env node ‘use strict’; var express = require(‘express’), app = express(), http = require(‘http’), server = http.createServer(app), io = require(‘socket.io’).listen(server); // load mootools globals and extend protos… Read more →
Just a quick note, updated my nodejs Markdown to HTML site generator Doctor to support the latest recess and BootStrap 2.3.2, latest stable published npm is v0.1.14 The grunt-doctor-md grunt task has also been updated to use doctor-md@0.1.14. $ npm install -g doctor-md $ doctor
One of the most common complaints of people when using 3-rd party code that breaks on MooTools pages is when somebody incorrectly tries to iterate through an Array with the for (var in) operator and the methods and properties added by the framework also show up. When you cannot change the code to add hasOwnProperty, it leaves you with very… Read more →
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