JavaScript

Meteor is getting more and more popular these days, and no wonder: creating a web application is so easy. But what can we do if we want to push our great project live? Unfortunately, there are not too many deployment tools available (yet?). In this article, I’m going to explain step by step how to deploy a Meteor application to debian/ubuntu system (apt-get command required).

The purpose of this post is to show you how to create a very simple blog app in Meteor. This tutorial, just as the development itself, should be time-efficient, so instead of writing everything from scratch, we’re going to use packages that can help you speed up your development cycle and be more productive.

What is Backbone Local.Storage? Backbone Local.Storage is a method which helps frontend developers to store the data locally. When someone starts making a new application and they need to save some data that they added in their project, and still, they do not have any information downloaded from the backend, they can use Local.Storage.

A brief introduction to Marionette’s reqres (request-response) and commands would be that they are application (or module) level event aggregators that either return a value or cause an action to happen.

When thinking of Responsive Web Design, most of your picture fluid grids and responsive images, forgetting a quite important piece of the puzzle - the content. Since content is king and most probably your content is mostly text, the responsive text is king. Let’s see what we can do to display text properly on a vast range of devices.

While we mostly use sass for it’s variables, nesting and mixins, the language itself is way more powerful. A lot of features may not be used on your everyday site, but there are times when they come in handy. Let’s take a look on how one would approach automatic class generation for any grid based sprites and how this could vastly shorten your code.