paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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pjnovas

##Ubuntu Server

NodeJS

sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils git-core make
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.28/node-v0.10.28.tar.gz
tar -xvzf node-v0.10.28.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.28