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Should I Use A JavaScript Library or Framework

Offering a good experience is better and more rewarding than any JavaScript framework. Thus, maybe, your users don’t need fancy features but a working app where they perform their tasks and a server side framework is good enough.

Teylor Feliz
June 7, 2016

Development

Adding Color Scheme Option using WordPress Theme Customizer

The advantage of this is that you can use LESS, Sass or any other preprocessor to easily create color schemes and without having to touch the CSS files directly.

Teylor Feliz
May 3, 2016

Development

DOM4 – query and queryAll

The DOM4 is coming with two brand new methods, query and queryAll.

Teylor Feliz
March 15, 2016

Development

Fetch API for Easier Ajax Requests

The problem with the XMLHttpRequest object is that it does not support promises natively. So, in order to work with the XMLHttpRequest object, you need to wrap it with a promise.

Teylor Feliz
January 26, 2016

Development

Gulp Introduction for Web Designers

Gulp is a task runner that helps to organize and run tasks automatically. Some of the tasks that can be performed by Gulp are minification, image compression, adding vendor prefixes, compile templates, convert markdown to HTML, compile CSS Preprocessors like LESS or SASS, etc.

Teylor Feliz
November 30, 2015
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Development

What is a Modern Web Browser

A web browser is not modern just because it is based on WebKit. in fact, there are other engines that are equal to or better than WebKit.

Teylor Feliz
September 1, 2015
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Development

The HTML5 Vibration API

The new HTML5 API’s are helping us to provide better user experiences no matter the device visiting the site. For example, for a desktop computer you may display a message on the screen while on smartphones, the message could be accompanied with a vibration of the device.

Teylor Feliz
June 15, 2015

Development

The JavaScript Framework Bandwagonism

JavaScript Frameworks and libraries usually get a lot of attention at their birth but their lifespan is very short if we compare them with other popular frameworks and libraries in other languages.

Teylor Feliz
May 14, 2015
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Development

3 Reasons Why Not to Build Around a Public API

The real issue is creating an application where the core components depend on external API’s because you are not really creating something unique that will last. You are extending the functionality and adding value to the API, and later they will replace your idea with theirs.

Teylor Feliz
April 9, 2015

Development

Now the Internet Explorer is Dead. Let’s Stop the Hate

Some of the biggest problems of Internet Explorer are caused because the browser needs to be backwards compatible, so it does not break any application, especially in the enterprise.

Teylor Feliz
March 17, 2015

Design, Development

Consider People with Disabilities in UX Your Projects

I strongly believe in the use of usability in startups and in creating a more democratized and inclusive web. However, this is not the case for most applications, where they designate most of their resources to flashing animations that don’t add anything to the application itself.

Teylor Feliz
July 28, 2014

Development

Variables in JavaScript

If your variable won’t be updated during the run of the scripts or you don’t want the variable to be overwritten, you should always use const.

Teylor Feliz
June 4, 2014