louisje

/**
 * RequireJS Plugin - CSS Loader
 *
 * [ex.]
 *   define(['css!jquery-ui-css', 'jquery', 'jquery-ui'], { });
 *
 * Its better to put 'css!' in front of other js dependencies to get
 * faster loading speed
 *
 */

ixisio

The LEBRON stack

Le velDB, Bro wserify, N ode.js

Resources

• [Project Website] http://lebron.technology/
• [video] Julian Gruber: Level Me up Scotty! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41oDDTRWjIQ

rhyolight

An Open Request to Travis-CI

I run open source projects for Numenta, and we are heavy users of Travis-CI. Most aspects of your service are oustanding. Here is a short list of the ways in which I love Travis-CI:

• Your customer support is immediately responsive, via email and chat.
• Your service integrates wonderfully with all the other services we use.
• Your API is excellent and well-documented.
• The rest of your documentation is also very complete and easy to read.
• You provide an OS X build environment!
• Builds are extremely customizable.

traviskaufman

Better Jasmine Tests With this

On the Refinery29 Mobile Web Team, codenamed "Bicycle", all of our unit tests are written using Jasmine, an awesome BDD library written by Pivotal Labs. We recently switched how we set up data for tests from declaring and assigning to closures, to assigning properties to each test case's this object, and we've seen some awesome benefits from doing such.

The old way

Up until recently, a typical unit test for us looked something like this:

describe('views.Card', function() {

lenary

$ git clone github:lenary/guides.git
Cloning into guides...
remote: Counting objects: 255, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (216/216), done.
remote: Total 255 (delta 111), reused 163 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (255/255), 1.49 MiB | 564 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (111/111), done.

$ cd guides
$ git remote -v

thevangelist

const convertToKebabCase = (string) => {
  return string.replace(/\s+/g, '-').toLowerCase();
}

nolanlawson

Why we dropped Lerna from PouchDB

We dropped Lerna from our monorepo architecture in PouchDB 6.0.0. I got a question about this from @reconbot, so I thought I'd explain our reasoning.

First off, I don't want this post to be read as "Lerna sucks, don't use Lerna." We started out using Lerna, but eventually outgrew it because we wrote our own custom thing. Lerna is still a great idea if you're getting started with monorepos (monorepi?).

Backstory:

• https://pouchdb.com/2016/01/13/pouchdb-5.2.0-a-better-build-system-with-rollup.html

david-mark

'use strict' Considered Pointless and Harmful

What is strict mode?

According to the MDN reference, it is:

ECMAScript 5's strict mode is a way to opt in to a restricted variant of JavaScript [sic].

It goes on to say:

conspect

It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingeniously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakespeare and Milton as ungrammaticaly as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people

robmiller

#
# Working with branches
#

# Get the current branch name (not so useful in itself, but used in
# other aliases)
branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
# Push the current branch to the remote "origin", and set it to track
# the upstream branch
publish = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"