JavaScript

jsonmonger is an abstraction layer between your JavaScript application and a json:api-compliant server. It’s designed to simplify your interactions with json:api so that you can focus on business logic, not API transactions.

Whether you're a seasoned JavaScript developer who could use an update or just touching JavaScript for the first time, ES6 for Everyone (https://es6.io/) by Wes Bos is a course for you! This course will give you all the information to get started and also strengthen your basic JavaScript skills.

“Decoupled Drupal” sounds cool and just about everyone else seems to be either doing it or talking about it, so it must be the best solution for you, right? Well, maybe. As with most things, the answer is more nuanced than one might think.

symdeps is an npm utility that lets you define custom install paths for your JavaScript dependencies with just a bit of configuration in your project’s package.json. It supports both symbolic and hard links, can handle individual files or entire directories, and can be set up to run automatically.

Summary: Test-driven development (TDD) keeps you focused, encourages critical thinking, and improves code confidence. Here are some basic principles that have helped me write effective tests and which have proven useful when introducing other developers to the practice.

How to reference a forked/patched npm package.

fastly-cli is a command-line interface (CLI) for the Fastly CDN written in node.js.

Despite all advice to the contrary, there are valid use cases for running npm via sudo. We encountered just such a case in our own work, and with it some challenges that made us scratch our heads and dive into man pages.

We're taking a deep dive into the Google Places Prediction and Autocomplete API to resolve our bug found in parts 1 and 2.

In part one we learned how implement a Google Places Autocomplete widget on an address form. In doing so we discovered a critical bug in the widget that degrades the user experience. Let's take a closer look and resolve this bug.

The Google Places Javascript API is a great client-side toolset that allows us to use the same database as Google Maps to verify addresses. Let's examine the API and implement Places Autocomplete functionality on our address forms.

Sometimes you need to output HTML in javascript. Drupal 7 provides a specialized javascript API including theming functions to help with this.