5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery
Burke Holland's look at some of the times you may be using jQuery to do things you shouldn't was the most visited article on Flippin' Awesome in 2013. Thanks Burke!
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Creating a Realistic Rain Effect with Canvas and JavaScript
Marek Brodziak's library for creating a very cool and realistic simulated rain effect on images went viral on sites like Hacker News.
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Writing Better jQuery Code
Mathew Carella's tips and tricks to write better jQuery prove that there are lots of things you shouldn't stop doing with jQuery as well.
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Eliminating Code Smell with Grunt
Grunt was one of the hot topics in 2013 and Gavin Lazar Suntop's article on how to use it to enforce coding standards clearly struck a chord.
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Towards a More Modular Future for JavaScript Libraries
A great opinion piece by Toby Ho that argues for a stronger focus on modularity from JavaScript library authors. Obviously many agreed.
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Node.js vs. PHP
Azat Mardanov's article touched on another hot topic in 2013, Node.js, and his comparison was helpful and his conclusion a little controversial.
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Writing Better CSS
More solid advice from Mathew Carella, this time for improving the quality of our CSS.
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Loading Images on Demand with Pure CSS
Pavlo Pidlypenskyi little experiment for lazy loading images using just CSS captured the imagination of many readers.
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The Angular Way
Many people proclaimed 2013 the "year of Angular" with it's popularity growing immensely and Nicolas Bevacqua wrote one of the definitive looks at the framework.
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