Javascript Archive

30 New jQuery Plugins Worth Taking a Look At

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Hundreds upon hundreds of new jQuery plugins are released every year. Some basic, offering simple functions, others can be complex offering far more functionalities. Either way, both types of plugins are always useful. Today, with this jQuery round-up, we will focus on both types and highlight 30 plugins that we feel have been the most useful and innovative from the last few months.

The jQuery Foundation Relaunches the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Currently, the jQuery project provides powerful back-end components for developers, but those seeking new plugins are forced to explore a multitude of different sources. On Wednesday, the jQuery Foundation relaunched their jQuery Plugin Registry with a much improved UI, providing a single source for plugins.

Our 50 Favorite Web Development Resources from 2012

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Let’s keep it simple: last year, we did a roundup of 50 of the most useful resources for web developers. Today, we bring to you the 2012 edition, but only better.

50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2012

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With hundreds upon hundreds (if not thousands) of new plugins being released this year – what a great jQuery year it has been. From that colossal total we have worked really hard filtering down all of the those plugins to bring you the 50 that we feel are the most innovative, most ground-breaking and, more importantly, the most useful.

Dynamic Open Source JavaScript Libraries for Web Projects

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The open source movement has created a sea of new code libraries to work with. You can’t search through Google without finding a heap of new open source projects based on PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, really any popular language. In this guide I would like to focus on some popular JavaScript libraries used in front end web development. Each project you create will have a different need for dynamic effects….

Microsoft TypeScript: “Syntactic Sugar” For JavaScript

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Are you involved in application-level development using JavaScript? If so, this news might interest you! A few weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled a new JavaScript-like programming language named TypeScript. At its most basic level, TypeScript operates by translating code into JavaScript (that enables its apps to run in any browser). The language itself is pretty similar to JavaScript in terms of its syntax, but with a good set of additions of…

20 New jQuery Plugins Worth Taking a Look at

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Keeping up with and tracking the constant flow of newly released jQuery plugins feels like a full job sometimes. Every other day we seem to discover something new, something cutting-edge and sometimes we find something that is truly groundbreaking and indispensable. We do love the innovation of the jQuery community.

JavaScript Code Debugging for Beginners

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Scripting has become an entire class of web development unto itself. With modern day libraries prominently including jQuery we are seeing more HTML/CSS developers taking an interest in coding JavaScript. Admittedly it can be tough to handle at first – but how you deal with bugs and errors is a true sign for your skills as a programmer. If you’re just getting started then it can be daunting to look…

Scroll to Internal Link with jQuery

Scroll to Internal Link with jQuery

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One page scrolling sites have experienced a huge growth in popularity in web design in recent years. Although this type of site isn’t for everyone, it is still useful to know how they work. Today, I will teach you how to create a very simple one page scrolling site using jQuery. Before we begin you can download the Source Files, or try the Demo. This is what we will be…

Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011

Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011

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As a developer, anything that can save you just a little bit of time is well worth its weight in gold. If you agree with that statement, you will love this. What we have for you is our selection of the best, the most useful and the most innovative tools and resources from 2011. That includes frameworks, boilerplates, apps, Javascript resources, CSS3 animations tools…and on…and on. So, no matter what,…

The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011

The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011

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What an exciting web development year we have had (OK, its not quite finished, but almost). HTML5 and CSS3 have forced there way into the mainstream, responsive layouts techniques are rapidly moving towards being the standard, sites like Dribble, Forrst and GitHub have offered a fantastic platform to both inspire and share new ideas and solutions, and of course, as it always reliably does year after year, the jQuery community…

25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts

25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts

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The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going into it too much, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that make your page unique?…

Hoverizr – An in depth view of the jQuery plugin

Hoverizr – An in depth view of the jQuery plugin

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As a web designer, from time to time, you may need to make a grayscale image fade into color on mouse over. So the typical solution would be to have each image desaturated to achieve the grayscale effect in Photoshop. Then, you would have to add a few extra divs and image tags to the markup an then add some jQuery magic to fade the images in and out. Or,…