Tag: javascript

QuickTip: Store Undefined and Null in Class/Table Rows on Parse.com

Update: Parse is shutting down. So you should start migrating.

Parse store undefined and null

I’ve been working on an Android app backed by Parse.com to make my development process faster and easier. So while coding the app I made a decision to have 2 classes (tables) called Conversations and User (exists by default). Conversations has a field called userId that should essentially store the objectId from User class. But some conversations are created by guest so for those records I decided to store NULL or “nothing” (undefined) under the userId column rather than Pointers which is what the column type is.

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Mini HTML/CSS/JS Code Playground (with Editors and Sandbox) in Less than 200 Bytes

Sometime back this thread on HackerNews gained quite some traction. Basically, it’s a small project called MiniCodeEditor which is a tiny and minimal version of an online code playground like CSSDeck.

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Simple and Lightweight JavaScript Table/Grid/List Sorter

This is more of a snippet extracted from one of my recent projects where I had to sort a list/grid of div’s. Yeah, I didn’t use tables for tabular data this time, but plain divs, although this snippet will work just fine with html table rows too.

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Binary and Red Black Search Tree Implementation in JavaScript

Binary Tree

I’m not going to dive deep into what Binary Search Tree is because this tutorial and Wikipedia does an excellent job at that. Instead I’ll mostly dicuss about a neat JS implementation that I came across recently, usable on the server side with Node.js and client-side as well.

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Fast Automatic Browserify Bundling with Beefy

If you’re a browserify user, then beefy might help you bundle your JavaScript file automatically. It is a command line tool that runs a local node server which accepts a path to the JS file (with all your require() calls) and serves the bundled asset via browserify.

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Serve Your JavaScript Files Bundled using Browserify with Node Enchilada

If you’re using Browserify to bundle assets in an Express or Connect application then you may want to consider using node-enchilada middleware to faciliate your bundling process.

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