MooTools in a distant future: how to write to better survive the changes
You may have already heard this, or maybe not. But this won’t change the fact that javascript is changing and the way people write it and specifically, how they write the libraries, modules and widgets...
View ArticleUsing overloadSetter / overloadGetter to make flexible functions in mootools
This is a really helpful feature of MooTools that a few people know and use. Basically, there is a pair of 2 Function prototypes called ‘overloadGetter‘ and ‘overloadSetter‘. They are very simple in...
View ArticleManage lazy-loading handlebars / mustache / other templates via MooTools
I have started using Backbone.js but with handlebars templates (like in Ember.js) that I parse through Underscore.js. Anyway, to cut a long story short – I did not want to have a bunch of flat script...
View ArticleMooTools Request.Spy – monitor all requests through the Request class prototype
An interesting question on StackOverflow prompted me to look into creating a universal spy/logger for all Requests that MooTools. The objective is: being able to log / spy on all XHR requests w/o...
View ArticleMooTools plugins round-up
Time for a round-up of interesting / quality plugins on the MooTools forge or github. Again. First off, my favourite find over the last month has to be the MooTools Router. What it does is handle...
View ArticleStrongPass: A password strength helper class
Good news, everyone (I miss Futurama). Three years ago I wrote a mootools plugin for password strength checking, based upon a stack overflow jquery post. I just had cause to revisit this for work at...
View Articlenew mootools github repos for handy little tools
Right then. If you don’t follow me on github, this will be news to you. Storage. https://github.com/DimitarChristoff/Storage – it’s a class that allows you to API localStorage or sessionStorage, when...
View ArticleEpitome: an example MooTools model / MVC tutorial
I have been a little busy at work but we recently built a small Model class to support our question set and I turned it into a tutorial on how to build your own MV* framework on top of MooTools. It is...
View ArticleSo you want delayed events in your mootools class?
I recently found that in the context of Class, .fireEvent() accepts a 3-rd argument, delay. Firing deferred events can be useful but you need to understand the full difference between the patterns...
View ArticleEpitome goes CI via buster.js and Travis CI
Just a quick note – the MooTools MV* framework I wrote for QMetric called ‘Epitome‘ is now covered by Travis CI automated testing. Read more about how to implement this in your javascript projects in...
View ArticleEpitome does todo
Just a quick update, my MooTools MVP library Epitome now has its own Epitome-todo repository as a submodule, an implementation of the popular TodoMVC demo. You can see it live here. If you checkout...
View ArticleSpying unobtrusively on Class instance events in MooTools
Ever needed to debug how your Class instances fire Events? It can be frustrating and messy, especially if you do not have access to the original Class prototype source. But, you can hack your way...
View ArticleExtend Slick pseudo selector to find data-attributes
This is a relatively simple idea. Select elements with data-attributes that match a pattern, for example, div[data-media-*]. The problem is, CSS selectors don;t allow you to wildcard attributes...
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Preloading images using javascript, the right way and without frameworks
There are two scenarios here. Case 1: you just want to load all your images prior to displaying the rest of your page. Whether that’s because you like it this way or you need to get the browser to...
View ArticleHiding enumerables after MooTools changes prototypes
One of the most common complaints of people when using 3-rd party code that breaks on MooTools pages is when somebody incorrectly tries to iterate through an Array with the for (var in) operator and...
View ArticleDoctor, MD – updated for recess 1.1.8 and BootStrap 2.3.2
Just a quick note, updated my nodejs Markdown to HTML site generator Doctor to support the latest recess and BootStrap 2.3.2, latest stable published npm is v0.1.14 The grunt-doctor-md grunt task has...
View ArticleEpitome now available as npm and under CommonJS
Just a quick update, Epitome now supports nodejs. Here’s an example creating a server via express and socket.io with a collection and a model that can be shared on the client as well: #!/usr/bin/env...
View ArticlelocalStorage and sessionStorage events to send messages acrosss browser...
This is a somewhat underused and lesser known feature of HTML5 localStorage API. The spec says: The storage event is fired when a storage area changes, as described in the previous two sections (for...
View ArticleTooling for the node.js generation, part I
If you are a front-end developer that has dabbled a little bit in node and like it, you probably need to build a list of tools (npm modules etc) you can use in your day-to-day development. Here’s a...
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primish. It’s like mootools prime but for the intarnets
We waited for ages for MooTools prime to come out and to get adopted and for web builds to show up and to become more MooTools-y. And then, we thought (me and the Grookedge who’s also a MooTools...
View ArticleTooling for the node.js generation, part II
In the previous article, a number of things got covered that help with npm modules you’d want to use in your node.js projects. This is a continuation. anything in a require() is an npm module,...
View ArticleSpy on any method on an object and profile number of times called
So, Object.observe will become a standard at some point. In the meanwhile, you may want to unobtrusively log any methods called on an object from the outside. So I wrote this little snippet that helps...
View ArticleIntroducing Epik: micro MVC on top of primish and lodash
Nearly two years ago, I started work on Epitome, an MVC framework for MooTools. And today, it’s pretty stable and a viable project to use, if you have MooTools in your stack, rather than jQuery....
View ArticleUsing RequireJS sugar syntax in main.js files
I love the sugar API of RequireJS. It’s elegant, clean and nearly identical to CommonJS. However, the examples often fail to demonstrate how to use it from a main.js file which does a require call,...
View ArticleThe bane of all reactjs newbies: binding event handlers
It is fair to say at least 1/3 of all reactjs questions posted on StackOverflow can be solved by understanding simple DOM event handler binding. Typically, they look like this: class EmailSignup...
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