SVG Text Tutorial: Text Annotation on the Web
Texts are an integral part of user interfaces. In many cases, text annotation plays a vital role in grabbing the user’s attention or allowing the user to decorate and highlight the content they produce.
In this article, we walk through the ins and outs of an open-source JavaScript library built for annotating texts on the web.
Anton Shkuratov
Meteor Tutorial: Building Real-Time Web Applications with Meteor
Meteor makes developing web applications simple. It’s easy to learn, and comes with a pre-built arsenal of powerful functionalities. In this article, we will walk through a detailed tutorial for building a simple real-time web application.
Peter Rogers
Application Development with Rapid Application Development Framework AllcountJS
AllcountJS is an emerging open-source framework built with rapid application development in mind. It is based on the idea of declarative application development using JSON-like configuration code that describes the structure and behavior of the application.
In this article, we walk through a step-by-step tutorial for prototyping a data-oriented web application using AllcountJS.
Pavel Tiunov
MIDI Tutorial: Creating Browser-Based Audio Applications Controlled by MIDI Hardware
Modern web browsers provide a rich set of APIs; some of which have been around for a long time, and have since been used to build powerful web applications.
Web Audio API has been popular among HTML5 game developers, however, the Web MIDI API and its capabilities have yet to be utilized. In this article, Toptal engineer Stéphane P. Péricat guides you through the basics of the Web MIDI API, and shows you how to build a simple monosynth to play with your favorite MIDI device.
Stéphane P. Péricat
Making an HTML5 Canvas Based Game: A Tutorial Using AngularJS and CreateJS
There are many programming platforms used to develop games, and there are a plethora of devices to play them on, but when it comes to playing games in a web browser, Flash-based development still leads the way.
What if we could port these games to HTML5 Canvas technology and play them on mobile browsers as well? In this article, Toptal engineer Avinash Kaza gave a solution to this.
Avinash Kaza
Context Aware Applications and Complex Event Processing Architecture
Since almost all smartphones today are equipped with location sensors, motion sensors, bluetooth, and wifi, today’s mobile apps can use context awareness to dramatically increase their capabilities and value. This article walks you through building a context aware app that employs complex event processing.
Rahul Devaskar
React.js View State Management Tutorial
One of the biggest and most common problems in front-end web development is state management. A developer is constantly focused on keeping the state object in sync with its view and the DOM representation. Users can interact with the application in many ways and it’s a big task to provide a clean transition from one view state to another.
We will see how using React JavaScript library can help us reduce application complexity and offload UI transitions from our application.
Leonardo Andrés Garcia Crespo
Building Real-time, Multiplatform Mobile Applications: Examples Using Ionic Framework and Firebase
This article provides step by step guide for building hybrid multiplatform real-time mobile application using the Ionic Framework and the Firebase.
Avinash Kaza
A Map to Perfection: Using D3.js to Make Beautiful Web Maps
Data Driven Documents, or D3.js, is an awesome data visualization library. In this article, I’ll discuss one particularly compelling application of D3.js: map making. We’ll go through the common challenges of building a useful and informative web map, and show how in each case, D3.js gives you everything you need to make your map look and feel beautiful.
Tomislav Bacinger
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