While working on Supercomments, I regularly came across third-party Node.js packages whose version in the npm registry was not the one I wanted. In most cases this was because the maintainer hadn't updated the version for a while, although in at least one instance it was because the code…
Having covered Vex and SweetAlert, this week's topic is yet another notification library: Humane.js. Humane has a slightly different purpose from the other two, which are relatively similar to each other. Whereas Vex and SweetAlert create modal dialogs, Humane is focused on non-blocking notifications similar to classic desktop notifications.…
In the JavaScript world there is broad consensus about how to describe and exchange data: JSON. But some classes of application need more. In particular, you may need to describe and exchange behavior as well as data. It isn't easy to find a simple real-world example because you tend to…
I have already written about Vex, a library for creating modal dialogs. This week let's take a look at SweetAlert, which is very similar to Vex. SweetAlert bills itself as "a beautiful replacement for JavaScript's 'alert'", but the word "alert" in this statement is a bit misleading. For me, an…
A few weeks ago, writing about the increasingly obsolete Async.js, I promised to talk about Highland.js. This library is by Caolan McMahon, who also wrote Async.js, and can be considered its successor. Highland can be used as an alternative to promises for handling asynchronous actions, but its…
