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Node.js Blueprints book - second chapter's clarification
posted in Nodejs on 2014-07-30 express version book app chapter node js blueprints var bodyparser code -
Before a couple of months my first book Node.js Blueprints was published by Packt. There are a couple of reviews in Amazon about chapter two. It’s about Express. One of the most popular frameworks in the Node.js ecosystem. The book mentions version 3.0 but the truth is that the code samples are for version 4.0. I feel that I still have to point out the differences and mark these parts of the chapter that are not valid for the newest version of the library.
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Revealing the magic: How to properly convert HTML string to a DOM element
posted in JavaScript on 2014-01-23 wrapmap table tr element tbody var html td div map -
This seems like a trivial task. However, it is not. There are few popular solutions, but they have a big problem and if you use them a lot you will spot the issue.
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SASS: differences between mixins, extends and placeholders
posted in CSS3 on 2013-08-05 awesome width height mixin body placeholders radius css sass extend awesome -
I used LESS a lot. These days I decided to try SASS and to be honest it's a better choice for CSS preprocessor. It just gives me more functionalities and better control on my code. There are few instruments for architecting your CSS logic - @mixin, @extend and placeholders. However there are differences between them and specific use cases.
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