The web development ecosystem has been changing rapidly in recent years, with various methods being adopted and then abandoned. Many developers are looking to learn patterns that they can use reliably ...

When building web pages or apps, you will often encounter the two terms async and await in JavaScript. These are terms ...

If you’re new to building web apps, check out the first issue of You Got This!, a friendly zine from developer community Glitch. The issue teaches the basic ...

A novel approach that avoids learning Java and the Android SDK. Is it workable? This is both an interesting and slightly irritating book. The idea is that instead of having to learn Java and the ...

Editor’s note: Spike Brehm, the author of this post, is just one of the amazing hackers we’ve got speaking at DevBeat 2013, our first-ever developer conference taking place next week, Nov. 12-13 in ...

280 North has already made two major breakthroughs in building its web-based presentation app 280 Slides. First, it created the Objective-C-like superset of JavaScript called Objective-J. Then it ...

During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox ...