Author Joseph Zimmerman

March 18, 2022 — Building on a previous article on How to Build a Drag-and-Drop File Uploader, we’ll be adding some new features, but more importantly (maybe), we’ll be learning how to build it in Vue 3 and learn some best practices for Vue along the way. Read more…

December 24, 2020 — Vuex is the go-to state management library for Vue applications, and the Vue core team has some big plans to make it better than ever. Here’s a preview of where they are looking to take it. Read more…

July 3, 2019 — Slots are a powerful tool for creating reusable components in Vue.js, though they aren’t the simplest feature to understand. Let’s take a look at how to use slots and some examples of how they can be used in your Vue applications. Read more…

January 15, 2018 — In this article, we’ll be using “vanilla” ES2015+ JavaScript (no frameworks or libraries) to complete this project, and it is assumed you have a working knowledge of JavaScript in the browser. This example should be compatible with every evergreen browser plus IE 10 and 11. Read more…

August 1, 2017 — This tutorial aims to help you understand how v-model works on native inputs and on custom components by default. Also, you’ll learn how to create custom checkboxes and radios that emulate how v-model works on them natively. Read more…

February 21, 2017 — JavaScript module bundling has been around for a while. RequireJS had its first commits in 2009, then Browserify made its debut, and since then several other bundlers have spawned across the Internet. Among that group, webpack has jumped out as one of the best. Read more…

January 19, 2016 — Node.js runs JavaScript directly on our machines, allowing us to create and share tools, using npm, to automate steps in our development cycles. Make it even better installing npm packages globally. Read more…

June 5, 2014 — In this series on Backbone.Marionette, we’ve already discussed Application and Module. This time, we’ll be taking a gander at how Marionette helps make views better in Backbone. Marionette extends the base View class from Backbone to give us more built-in functionality, to eliminate most of the boilerplate code and to convert all of the common code down to configuration. Read more…

April 2, 2013 — In the first part of this series, we discussed Backbone.Marionette’s Application. This time around, we’ll discuss the module system that is included in Backbone.Marionette. Modules are accessible through the Application, but modules are a very large topic and deserve an article dedicated to them. Read more…

February 11, 2013 — Backbone.js is quickly becoming the most popular framework for building modular client-side JavaScript applications. This is largely due to its low barrier to entry; getting started with it is super-simple. Read more…