The One Second Website : 10x your site performance
Last year, Patrick Hamann gave a talk for Google Developers on Breaking News at 1000ms.
It lays out how Patrick and his team built a...
The Internet of Peas? Gardening with JavaScript Part 1
Who wouldn't want an army of robots to help out around the home and garden? It's not science fiction: Robots are devices that sense...
The Internet of Peas? Gardening with JavaScript Part 2
In this two-part article series, we're building an internet-connected garden bot using JavaScript. In part one, we set up a Particle Core board, created...
Programming littleBits circuits with JavaScript Part 1
littleBits are electronic building blocks that snap together with magnetic connectors. They are great for getting started with electronics and robotics and for prototyping...
Programming littleBits circuits with JavaScript Part 2
In this two-part series, we're programing littleBits circuits using the Johnny-Five JavaScript Robotics Framework. Be sure to read over Part 1 before continuing here.
Let's...
Making an App with React and Material Design
There has been much progression in the hybrid app development space, and also in React.js. Currently, almost all hybrid apps use cordova to build...
Angular 2 in the new world of web dev
This week at Packt we’re all about Angular, and with the release of Angular 2 just on the horizon there’s no better time to...
AngularJS: The Love Affair of the Decade
AngularJS stands at the apex of the way we think about web development today. Even as we look ahead to Angular 2.0, the framework...
Angular.js, Node.js, and Firebase: the startup web developer’s toolkit
So, you’ve started a web company. You’ve even attracted one or two solid clients. But now you have to produce, and you have to...
App Development Using React Native vs. Android/iOS
Until two years ago, I had exclusively done Android native development. I had never developed iOS apps, but that changed last year, when my...
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