Web Development Resources
About
[edit | edit source]This page is a collection of web development resources used by JavaScript Class and Front-end Web Development.
HTTP
[edit | edit source]HTML
[edit | edit source]- HTML Living Standard HTML5
- Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
- HTML5 Doctor - Articles on the latest additions to HTML5
- HTML5 Boilerplate - Popular website template
- HTML5 Cheat Sheet Quick HTML5 guide.
- HTML 5 Cheat Sheet for Beginners - An easy to understand HTML 5 cheat sheet (In Alphabetical Order).
- WHATWG Mailing Lists Email list for HTML5.
CSS
[edit | edit source]- CSS Specifications
- Create Cubic Bezier for CSS by Lea Verou
- W3C CSS Validator
- CSS Cheat Sheet
- CSS Image to Colors Palette Generator - Create a color palette from an image
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator - GUI for creating cross-browser CSS3 gradients
- CSS Zen Garden - Demonstrates the flexibility of CSS-based design
- Normalize.css - Makes user agent stylesheets more consistent and modern
- Dust Me CSS Selectors - Detects unused rules in your stylesheets (homepage).
- Sass - Stylesheet preprocessor language with variables, nesting, mixins, and more
- CSS Vocabulary - An interactive dictionary of CSS terminology.
JavaScript
[edit | edit source]Tutorial
[edit | edit source]- Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
- DOM Enlightenment by Cody Lindley
- Learning Advanced JavaScript by John Resig
- Named function expressions demystified
Reference
[edit | edit source]- ECMAScript® Language Specification
- JavaScript | MDN Mozilla Developer Network
- Learn JavaScript MDN Mozilla Developer Network
- FAQ and Notes for comp.lang.javascript
- W3C DOM Level 3, Core
- W3C DOM 2 HTML
- W3C DOM Level 2 Events
- W3C DOM Level 3 Events Working Draft
- JSON
Video
[edit | edit source]- Demystifying Regular Expressions by Lea Verou
Newsgroup / Forum
[edit | edit source]JavaScript libraries
[edit | edit source]- AngularJS - Directive-based MVC framework
- Backbone.js - Barebones MVC framework
- Ember.js - Handlebars-based MVC framework
- jQuery - Downloads and documentation for the most popular web framework
- JQuery Cheat Sheet - JQuery Cheat Sheet
- Modernizr - JS feature-detection library
Browser support
[edit | edit source]- Autoprefixer - Preprocesses stylesheets and adds vendor prefixes
- Can I use... - Worldwide browser support percentages for new technologies
- CSS3 Please - Easy vendor prefixing page for popular CSS3 features
- HTML5 Please - Whether to use the latest in HTML5
- HTML feature checker
Web applications
[edit | edit source]- Django - Python-based web app framework
- Express - Straightforward JavaScript web app framework
- Grunt - JavaScript-based workflow tool
- Middleman - Ruby-based front-end workflow app
- Ruby on Rails - Wildly popular Ruby-based web app framework
- Yeoman - JavaScript-based front-end workflow app
General
[edit | edit source]- A List Apart - Articles on the web as a platform and business
- CSS-Tricks - Compendium of examples and code snippets
- Front-end Rescue - How to keep up-to-date on front-end technologies
- Stack Overflow - A popular Q&A platform for programmers
- Blogging Basics 101 - Lots of beginner resources.
- Tools For Bloggers Introductory blogging tools.
- Career.io - developer career resources
Quiz
[edit | edit source]- JavaScript Quiz, by Kangax
- Front End Web Development Quiz, by David Sharriff
- Front-end Web Development Quiz, by Jeffrey Carl Faden
- ECMA-262, The Quiz, by Dmitry Soshnikov (covers Ecma-262 r3).
Documentation
[edit | edit source]- MDN: Web technology for developers - Mozilla's documentation on the web
- WebPlatform.org - Web documentation wiki from a variety of sources
Online schools
[edit | edit source]- Code Academy
- Code School
- Coursera
- Front-end Web Development - at Noisebridge
- JavaScript Class - at Noisebridge
- Khan Academy
- Rails School - at Noisebridge
- Udacity
- Free Code Camp