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Writing a standalone Ajax XHR JavaScript micro-library

Whether you’re working with websites or applications, you’re bound to have faced a task dealing with Ajax requests, whether it be getting a new doc...

Todd Motto

Mar 31, 2014

Ditch the [].forEach.call NodeList hack

I’ve got to admit before we go any further, I used to use this technique. It looked edgy and cool and I was doing ECMA5 hacks, but after a while an...

Todd Motto

Feb 23, 2014

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Stratos.js simplifying Object manipulation

JavaScript Objects are usually the driving force behind applications I develop, specifically JSON which gets sent back and forth from the server as...

Todd Motto

Feb 22, 2014

Mastering the Module Pattern

I’m a massive fan of JavaScript’s Module Pattern and I’d like to share some use cases and differences in the pattern, and why they’re important. Th...

Todd Motto

Jan 29, 2014

Avoiding anonymous JavaScript functions

Anonymous functions, the art of the callback. I’m going to propose that you never write a callback again using an anonymous function, and I’ll sell...

Todd Motto

Jan 19, 2014

Everything you wanted to know about JavaScript scope

The JavaScript language has a few concepts of “scope”, none of which are straightforward or easy to understand as a new JavaScript developer (and e...

Todd Motto

Dec 29, 2013

Stop toggling classes with JS, use behaviour driven DOM manipulation with data-states

Using a class to manipulate the DOM? What about this idea. Using classes have many issues, the main one for me is that adding classes to elements t...

Todd Motto

Dec 17, 2013

A comprehensive dive into NodeLists, Arrays, converting NodeLists and understanding the DOM

Manipulating the DOM is JavaScript’s role when developing websites and applications, and we do this by grabbing collections of elements called Node...

Todd Motto

Dec 12, 2013

Vault.js, HTML5 local session Web Storage API with automatic JSON support

Vault is a 0.6KB standalone HTML5 (local/session) Web Storage API with automatic JSON support. Web Storage only accepts a String as value of an Obj...

Todd Motto

Dec 7, 2013

Smarten your front-end workflow with @conditionizr, screencast on all the APIs

Who’s using Conditionizr? So far we’ve found some teams at Google, Sencha, NASA are some great names using it.

Todd Motto

Nov 26, 2013

Apollo.js, standalone class manipulation API for HTML5 and legacy DOM

Apollo is a <1KB standalone DOM class manipulation API for adding, removing, toggling and testing the existence of classes on an element. Apollo...

Todd Motto

Nov 9, 2013

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Writing a standalone Ajax XHR JavaScript micro-library

Ditch the [].forEach.call NodeList hack

Stay in the loop.

Stratos.js simplifying Object manipulation

Mastering the Module Pattern

Avoiding anonymous JavaScript functions

Everything you wanted to know about JavaScript scope

Stop toggling classes with JS, use behaviour driven DOM manipulation with data-states

A comprehensive dive into NodeLists, Arrays, converting NodeLists and understanding the DOM

Vault.js, HTML5 local session Web Storage API with automatic JSON support

Smarten your front-end workflow with @conditionizr, screencast on all the APIs

Apollo.js, standalone class manipulation API for HTML5 and legacy DOM