Should you learn vanilla, pure JavaScript before hopping on the trendy JS frameworks bandwagon? Yes. Read this post to learn why.

There is UI animation, and then there is good UI animation. Good animation makes you go “Wow!” — it’s smooth, beautiful and, most of all, natural, not blocky, rigid or robotic.

Typically, desktop applications for each operating system are written in each’s native language. That can mean having three teams writing three versions of your app. Electron enables you to write your app once and with web languages.

This tutorial will teach you how to write your first package for the Atom text editor. You’ll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a plugin for finding and using code snippets from StackOverflow.

Using npm packages inevitably exposes you to certain Node.js security risks. Follow these 7 points to reduce your security exposure substantially .

Service workers can do a lot more than make web pages work offline but for most people, myself included, this will be their first experience with them. I recently implemented a simple offline page for my blog and was surprised with how easy it was. Full of confidence, I wanted to do more. I decided to start saving blog posts for offline reading and things escalated quickly. I soon learnt the rabbit hole is deep.