Category Archives: JavaScript

Book Review: Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll be reviewing the eBook version of Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile authored by Shane Gliser and published by Packtpub. You can check out Shane’s blog here.

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Book Review: CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’m going to review the ebook version of CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js authored by Michael Erasmus and published my Packtpub.

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Using Python to build a web project using jQuery (AJAX) and Flask

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Chad Lung

I’m working on a new project where I need to have a dashboard fetch updates on a regular basis from it’s host server. I decided to use Flask which is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2 … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Embedded JavaScript templates (EJS) and Node.js

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Chad Lung

There are several ways to create web applications with Node.js. One popular way is to use Jade. Today, I’ll show you how to use EJS (Embedded JavaScript templates) with Node.js to create a simple web application. If you’ve used PHP … Continue reading →

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An easy tutorial on using callbacks in Node.js

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Chad Lung

In a previous post I showed you how to use the EventEmitter to give a notification when a webpage had been downloaded (or ran into an error). Today I’ll show you the same project but using a callback instead.

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A quick guide to JavaScript classes and inheritance

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Chad Lung

Today I’m going to go over how to create classes in JavaScript and how to work with inheritance. The first thing to confess is that JavaScript doesn’t actually have classes (please keep this in mind as I mention class in … Continue reading →

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Working with Events in Node.js using EventEmitter

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Chad Lung

The EventEmitter class in Node.js is pretty easy to work with when it comes to triggering custom events in your projects. Today I’m going to show you a simple demo project to fetch the contents of a website and then … Continue reading →

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Performing content-negotiation with Express 3 and Node.js (examples in CoffeeScript and JavaScript)

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Chad Lung

Express version 3 introduces a nice feature that performs content-negotiation on the request accept header field when present. This makes it easy to respond to a client request with the requested format. In this article I’ll show you how to … Continue reading →

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The 2 minute guide to creating a new module in CoffeeScript for Node.js

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Chad Lung

Using modules in Node.js is an everyday task for most Node programmers. Today I’ll show you how to quickly create a class using CoffeeScript and to make it exportable into a Node.js project.

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Working with JQuery, AJAX, CoffeeScript and Node.js

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Chad Lung

I often get asked how to get Node.js working with JQuery and AJAX. Of course you can always use something like Socket.IO for realtime, but sometimes you might be dealing with older browsers that don’t support WebSockets and AJAX might … Continue reading →

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