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5 jQuery Recipes Written in Vanilla JavaScript

Submitted by matt_eaton on Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:10 PM

To illustrate the ease of using vanilla JavaScript over jQuery I decided to create a list of five examples that would demonstrate parallel behavior between JavaScript and jQuery. The examples in this list are intended to be real world examples, but if you have any other examples I would love to hear about them too!

Another great resource to compare JavaScript and jQuery code samples is You Might Not Need jQuery.

PHP Magic Constants

Submitted by matt_eaton on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 08:01 PM

If you have spent any time writing Object Oriented PHP or Drupal PHP you will know that there are many instances where it can be handy to know exactly what you are dealing with at a specific point in your code. For example, possibly you are troubleshooting an issue and cannot figure out why a variable is not acting as it should, or maybe you are writing logging routines to make sure all of your exceptions are logged for future troubleshooting.

JavaScript without jQuery

Submitted by matt_eaton on Fri, 07/03/2015 - 11:55 AM

In the last 6 months or so I have noticed that a lot of the JavaScript that I have been writing to perform DOM traversal, manipulation, and event handling has gone back to vanilla JavaScript. Outside of writing Drupal themes I find myself not wanting to use jQuery at all. So, what is happening here? How did I go from a web developer that primary uses jQuery as his library of choice to completely removing it from my arsenal for everything that is outside of Drupal themes?

React JS

Submitted by matt_eaton on Mon, 05/25/2015 - 12:37 AM

React JS is a semi-new open source JavaScript rendering library that came out of a collaboration between the Instagram and Facebook engineering teams. React was created as better a way to approach complex user interfaces where the traditional MVC approach was just not sustainable anymore.

A Look At Parse

Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 05/24/2015 - 04:00 PM

In the last couple of years I have been involved with a lot projects all with the same type of scenario, there is a server housing a content management system or a database, a remote mobile application that reads data from the server, and usually a web application for anonymous and authenticated web traffic.

Drupal Detachment : Using Node.js to Serve Data - Part 3/3

Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 01/11/2015 - 03:12 PM

In part one of this post I explained the need to have a content management system detached from the web service. In part two of this post I explained how to sync the data from Drupal to MongoDB and sync it in a way that left Node.js to just read the data and serve it.

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Agnostic Development

Matt Eaton Agnostic Development is a blog dedicated to all types of development and coding with a focus on network engineering and advancements in network and system security. Articles on my blog may include research in network security, new technology, technical leadership, and all the things in between.

Today's developers must be well versed in network security and engineering. This blog attempts to take a look at some of the interesting networking topics I am currently researching.