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Getting Started With The PayPal API
PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments today. The ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account with a traditional payment...
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A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients
Are you fascinated by dynamic data? Do you go green with envy when you see tweets pulled magically into websites? Trust me, I’ve been there. The goal of today’s tutorial is to create a simple Web app...
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Laying The Groundwork For Extensibility
The Web has succeeded at interoperability and scale in a way that no other technology has before or since. Still, the Web remains far from “state of the art”, and it is being increasingly threatened by...
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Declarative Programming And The Web
Like most web developers, I spend my days giving instructions to computers. These instructions generally involve some input (a request for a web page), some logic (get the right content from a...
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The State Of Animation 2014
The post-Flash era is hardly free of animation. CSS animation is quickly becoming a cornerstone of user-friendly interfaces on mobile and desktop, and JavaScript libraries already exist to handle...
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Enhancing User Experience With The Web Speech API
It’s an exciting time for web APIs, and one to watch out for is the Web Speech API. It enables websites and web apps not only to speak to you, but to listen, too. It’s still early days, but this...
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Why AJAX Isn’t Enough
AJAX calls have moved user interaction on the Web a huge step forward: We no longer need to reload the page in response to each user input. Using AJAX, we can call specific procedures on the server...
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Creating Well-Behaved Sites With The Page Visibility API
We’re all resigned to it: launching a browser reloads every tab you previously had open, blasting a cacophonous mix of sound and video. While browsers have made it easier to control this experience...
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Accessibility APIs: A Key To Web Accessibility
Web accessibility is about people. Successful web accessibility is about anticipating the different needs of all sorts of people, understanding your fellow web users and the different ways they...
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React To The Future With Isomorphic Apps
Things often come full circle in software engineering. The web in particular started with servers delivering content down to the client. Recently, with the creation of modern web frameworks such as...
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Making A WordPress Plugin That Uses Service APIs, “From Soup To Nuts”
An increasingly large number of publicly available APIs provide powerful services to expand the functionality of our applications. WordPress is an incredibly dynamic and flexible CMS that powers...
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Building A Server-Side Application With Async Functions and Koa 2
One of the upcoming features of JavaScript that I especially like is the support for asynchronous functions. In this article, I would like to show you a very practical example of building a...
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The (Not So) Secret Powers Of The Mobile Browser
Apple taught us, "There's an app for that." And we believed it. Why wouldn't we? But time has passed since 2009. Our mobile users have gotten more mature and are starting to weigh having space for...
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HTML APIs: What They Are And How To Design A Good One
As JavaScript developers, we often forget that not everyone has the same knowledge as us. It’s called the curse of knowledge: When we’re an expert on something, we cannot remember how confused we...
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Experimenting With speechSynthesis
I’ve been thinking a lot about speech for the last few years. In fact, it’s been a major focus in several of my talks of late, including my well-received Smashing Conference talk “Designing the...
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Beyond The Browser: From Web Apps To Desktop Apps
I started out as a web developer, and that's now one part of what I do as a full-stack developer, but never had I imagined I'd create things for the desktop. I love the web. I love how altruistic...
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json-api-normalizer: An Easy Way To Integrate The JSON API And Redux
As a front-end developer, for each and every application I work on, I need to decide how to manage the data. The problem can be broken down into the following three subproblems: Fetch data from...
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How To Build Your Own Action For Google Home Using API.AI
For the holidays, the owner of (and my boss at) thirteen23 gave each employee a Google Home device. If you don’t already know, Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant...
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Developing A Chatbot Using Microsoft’s Bot Framework, LUIS And Node.js (Part 1)
This tutorial gives you hands-on access to my journey of creating a digital assistant capable of connecting with any system via a RESTful API to perform various tasks. Here, I’ll be demonstrating...
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Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js
Using voice commands has become pretty ubiquitous nowadays, as more mobile phone users use voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana, and as devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have been...
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