Tag Archives: JavaScript

Grunt – for automating builds in Front End land

Grunt is a front end build tool I’ve used on the last several projects. It handles CSS / JavaScript minification, concatenation, and linting really well.  Some of my legacy projects use a combination of bash and Yahoo UI Compressor, which … Continue reading

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AngularJS Review – A Sweet Client Side JavaScript Framework

AngularJS makes everything else look obsolete. I’m looking at you Backbone and Ember… It is one of those things where in hindsight the approach appears obvious because it is so elegant. However it took the web a good 15 years … Continue reading

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A Critique of JavaScript MVC frameworks – Beware of Rampant Asynchronous JavaScript Calls

Software professionals should be aware of the limitations that come with the current trend of building asynchronous heavy web applications. We are seeing a surge in serious and large scale JavaScript applications at the enterprise level. Here is a list … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Require.js and a simpler approach to loading JavaScript

Require.js is trying to solve the problem of dealing with lots of JavaScript. I have used it with Backbone.js, underscore, Dojo, and jQuery. It works well, but it does take some effort to get it configured and running within your … Continue reading

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