29 Oct 2016
JavaScript Stack From Scratch
This is a minimalistic and straight to the point guide to assembling a JavaScript stack. It teaches you how to set up ES6, Babel, Gulp, ESLint, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Flow. It requires some general programming knowledge, and JavaScript basics. It focuses on wiring all these tools together and giving you the simplest possible example for each tool. You can see this tutorial as a way to write your own boilerplate from scratch.
This is a super useful guide to all the steps before you you even start to dive into the first feature of your next killer app. I’ve done all these things many times over, and with the rate of change in javascript font-end tooling (google “javascript fatigue”) there’s been many variations to this, although they all are wiring up the basics of libraries, build, test etc.
26 Oct 2016
Next.js
For many years now, we have been pursuing a vision of universal JavaScript applications.
Node.js led the way, by enabling code sharing between client and server, broadening the contribution surface for many developers around the world.
Many attempts were made to make it practical to develop apps and websites on Node. Many template languages and frameworks came along… but the technical divide between frontend and backend remained.
zeit/next.js
A minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications
25 Oct 2016
Using Webpack with Phoenix and Elixir
Phoenix, by default, uses Brunch for a build tool – and for most folks, it’ll work, but I’ve grown fond of webpack because of features like hot module replacement and the ease of configuring loaders/processors in the build process. In my opinion, Elixir and Phoenix is the best for choice for server side architecture currently, so, naturally these should be paired with the best client side tools.
21 Oct 2016
naptha/tesseract.js
Pure Javascript OCR for 62 Languages
Tesseract.js
supports over 60 languages, automatic text orientation and script detection, a simple interface for reading paragraph, word, and character bounding boxes. Tesseract.js can run either in a browser and on a server with NodeJS.
20 Oct 2016
Machine Learning is Fun!
This guide is for anyone who is curious about machine learning but has no idea where to start. I imagine there are a lot of people who tried reading the wikipedia article, got frustrated and gave up wishing someone would just give them a high-level explanation. That’s what this is.
This is a great five-part introduction to machine learing.