It’s been a while since I have posted here, mostly because we are busy building things at Okta. In the past while I have been building our UI framework and generalizing UI components, and thought I should share some high level bullet points of my experience. 1. You are building a framework Unless you are building a small website, no matter if you…

I finally got to mess around with PhantomJS and Jasmine, and couldn’t find a resource that gives clear, concise, accurate information, without language specific or build tool specific coupling, so I decided to write it myself. Fortunately, it is way simpler than I thought. PhantomJS PhantomJS is a standalone, cross platform command line application…

One of the good things about Backbone.js is it doesn’t tell us how to do things. It leaves it for us to decide what are the best practices for writing views (or any components). This is also one of the worst things about Backbone. it makes it almost too easy to take the wrong path, and write views that will be hard to maintain. The principle we…

In my previous post, I covered the structure of a Backbone.js application using RequireJS. The next thing (or if you are a TDD fan, the first thing) we do is to run some tests on it. According to Coda Hale: Writing tests for your code may not reduce the number of bugs, but it will make fixing the bugs you inevitably find easier. Obviously, we can…