Introducing gulp-devtools
Its been a while since my previous blog post and I am very happy to finally made some time to blog agian. Recently I have been playing a lot with chrome extension development as its so much fun. Read on
Hi. I’m Nikhilesh Katakam.
Here are some thoughts of mine.
Communicating Between React Views
In my hunt to learn the next UI framework after Backbone, I came across React. Its an open source javascript famework from Facebook, used for building modular user interfaces. As the project page says, most people use React as V in the MVC architecture.
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Unary plus operator shorthand for converting a string to a number in javascript
If you are a javascript developer like me, you must have come across a scenario where you needed to convert a string to a number. I have generally been using either parseInt or parseFloat for these type of conversions.
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Building Modular apps using Backbone and Geppetto
When building large multi-modular apps, embedding business logic within your Backbone views or models does not scale well. Ideally you would want to de-couple your business logic from the view logic. Solving this problem becomes really easy using Geppetto.
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Databinding using Backbone Stickit
In my previous post we looked at setting up data-bindings between our backbone views and models using the Backbone.Modelbinder plugin. In this post, I will demonstrate another viable alternative for data-binding called Backbone.Stickit.
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Data-Binding your Backbone Models to Views
Prologue
One of the first things any developer migrating into the Javascript world would look for is to find common coding practices and concepts. Data-Binding is one such concept which facilitates bi-directional binding between views and its associated models.
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