I had the fun task to turn the default WordPress gallery into a carousel. Our users didn’t really like the grid of images, that WordPress ships with. Instead, our designers came up with something like below: It’s basically a carousel, with the caption in a grey area in the side, along with control buttons in […]
Category Archives: JavaScript
JavaScript is considered to be the “language” of the web. It is one of the most expressive object oriented and functional programming available to date. These posts contain topics about JavaScript.
VueJS – Let’s build a real-world app with Components and Templates
VueJS is a JavaScript framework that is said to be “progressive”, easy to learn and a pleasure to write. I’ve heard plenty of developers rave about it, while the rest of the JS community are certainly intrigued by its simplicity, performance and concepts. One thing is for sure – the documentation is the best I’ve […]
Working with jQuery’s AJAX, Promises and Deferred objects
jQuery’s implementation of making AJAX calls is quite easy to understand. There is $.ajax(), $.get(), $getJSON(), $.post() – which are all xhr requests, just different ways of writing it. It probably has the most straightforward syntax available and that’s why developers continue to use it, more than other libraries.The funny thing is, once we get […]
Learning React.js – Looping through multiple nested components
Lately, I’ve been using React for building applications for work. React is a library that takes care of the “views” of your application. It is scalable, fast and very powerful. What I especially like about React is the way it handles the DOM – through something called the “Virtual DOM“. Rendering components through the Virtual […]
How to create Better Tooltips with plain JavaScript and CSS
Today we’ll be building tooltips with JavaScript. Tooltips are the small snippet of text that shows when you hover over a link. The text is from the “Title” attribute of the anchor tag – which is supposed to describe to the user what the link is about, before they click it. View Demo The default […]
Build a SharePoint Single-Page App using nothing but Front-End Code
For this session, I would like to show you how to build a “mini” single page application in SharePoint 2013. A single page application that is ALL Front-end code (JavaScript, HTML and CSS); while using SP’s REST services. We’re also using Bootstrap for the responsiveness and tab interface, Handlebars for the templating, as well as […]