Go Fetch 2! (JavaScript Fetch API)

Go Fetch 2! (JavaScript Fetch API)

Last time we discussed the Fetch API in general, taking a look at how it differed from the XMLHttpRequest API, and some of its advantages. Today, we’re going to take a look at a little library that you can include in your projects today that offers you localStorage caching for the Fetch API.

Go Fetch! (JavaScript Fetch API)

Go Fetch! (JavaScript Fetch API)

Long ago, we briefly brushed upon the topic of what has made jQuery such a valuable part of the web developer’s toolset for such a long time – namely, a cleaner interface for interacting with the DOM, and the $.ajax abstraction over XMLHttpRequest.
These days, I would go a step farther and discuss how it has positively influenced browser APIs. jQuery offered a way to find elements using their css selectors, and this eventually gave us document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll. More recently, browser developers have taken another page from jQuery’s playbook and introduced a new, Promise-based API for making asynchronous requests, and so much more – Fetch.
Why go Fetch? Let’s take a look.

Bootstrap Radio Buttons as DataTable Filters

Bootstrap Radio Buttons as DataTable Filters

Filtering tables of data is the central task of many a business web-app. This is the first of a series of tutorials on using Bootstrap radio buttons in the wild to filter real datasets in concert with other commonly-used UI components like DataTables and jQuery UI.

Payment Processing with Braintree

Payment Processing with Braintree

You’ve built the web application of the century, and the users have rightly flooded to it. Cat pictures for everyone!
But alas, while your users indulge in cat-induced bliss, the cold hard reality of server costs cannot help but harsh your mellow. What is to be done?
Maybe, you could get the users to… pay for access to your incredible web application in all its multivarious splendour?