Modern Web Practices

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About the Book

In its infancy, web development used to be simple. A developer who knew a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript could compete in a fledgling market.

Then libraries like jQuery and prototype gave web developers a taste for dynamic HTML, while AJAX reduced the web server to an API.

The browser, once a thin client, gained weight. HTML5, CSS3, and ECMAScript5 filled the developer’s toolbox with powerful new tools for creating application data, presentation, and behavior.

An explosion of open source projects (and some proprietary extensions) sprung to life around these advancements. Suddenly the World Wide Web became a much more complex place for developers. Web applications now rival the capabilities of many desktop applications, and must function in a wide range of browsers on an even wider range of devices.

The modern web is no longer simple. And those who code for it can't be either.

Automate Your Workflow with Grunt -- Aaron Bushnell
Offline Web Applications -- Nicholas Cloud
Data Binding -- Ryan Conaway
Making Things Move with CSS3 Transitions and Animations -- Trevan Hetzel
HTML and CSS Bad Practices -- Ted Waller
Bower in Practice: A Package Manager for the Web -- Bob Yexley

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Nicholas Cloud

For over a decade I’ve worked hard to turn my skills into a career. I have developed solutions on both Linux and Windows platforms with JavaScript, C#, Ruby, and PHP. I have extensive experience with web technologies, web services, and desktop development. I’ve used more open source libraries than you can shake a stick at and have even contributed to a few as well. I am the founding member of the St. Louis ALT .NET user group, speak at a variety of user groups and conferences, and write technical articles and blog posts in my spare time.

I have a real passion for deconstructing business problems, creating abstract, reusable and flexible solutions, and creating awesome software that rocks.

Phillip Conaway

Full Stack Web Developer, Husband of tattoo artists, gamer

Ted Waller

Ted Waller is a Front-end developer from Atlanta, GA. He's been making stuff for the web since the mid 2000s and loves writing CSS and JavaScript all day from his home office. When he's not making websites, Ted's spending time with his wife Kay, reading, or playing music.

Aaron Bushnell

Aaron Bushnell is a web developer born and raised in the midwest. He spends most of his day working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife and dog, hanging out with family and friends, cooking and playing video games.

Trevan Hetzel

I am a front-end web developer, designer and startup enthusiast. I'm passionate about building scalable responsive websites that push the limits of CSS as far as possible. With 9 years experience as a front-end developer, my specialty technologies hover around HTML, CSS and JavaScript. However, I thoroughly enjoy building fun things with Ruby on Rails, Node.js and, my main freelancing service under the Hetzel Creative brand, Wordpress. On top of front-end web development, my roots lie in user interface design and I can still throw around some top-notch mockups in Photoshop.

Bob Yexley

I am a disciple of Jesus, a husband to Crystal, a father to Phoenix and Hunter, a software developer and an outdoorsman...in that order. I am an introvert who prefers the peace and quite of the wilderness to the hustle and bustle of civilization, yet I have found my place in both. I lurk as @ryexley on Twitter, and I sometimes write stuff on my blog at http://bob.yexley.net.

Credits and Acknowledgements
Preface
Automate Your Workflow with Grunt
- Some things to mention before we begin
- Getting started
- Setting up Grunt and solving our first issue
- Setting up our first task - concatenation and minification
- Automating CSS with Grunt
- Using Grunt to include files in our HTML
- Running Grunt automatically when files change
- Automation now and beyond
- Resources
Offline Web Applications
- Introduction
- Caching application resources
- Caching application data
- Putting it all together
- Conclusion
Data Binding
- Client Side Data Binding
- How did we get here?
- Do it yourself
- Modern Browser alternatives
- Hasn’t this been done already?
- Wrap up
Making Things Move with CSS3 Transitions and Animations
- Transition vs. animation
- Getting to know transitions
- Getting to know animations
- Use cases on the web
- A few notes on performance
- Wrapping up
HTML and CSS Bad Practices
- Naming classes after style
- Ignoring Accessibility
- Writing selectors that are too general
- Writing selectors that are too specific
- Using absolute units and fixed widths
- Animating with JavaScript instead of CSS
- Using inline-styles
- Wrapping up
Bower in Practice: A Package Manager for the Web
- How to use it
- Creating and maintaining your own Bower package
- That’s Bower for ya…

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