Tutorials on Web Frameworks and Design

4 Easy Ways to Integrate React.JS with Ruby on Rails

by Srinidhi Prabandham on 6th October, 2017

Ruby on Rails has been an extremely productive monolith web application (full-stack) framework that enables developers to develop and deploy applications with ease. For businesses and startups, it serves as a platform that helps to get the product to the market quickly.

Ruby on Rails used to ship with jQuery by default (until version 5.1), jQuery is a great library that is small and robust. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax simple with an easy-to-use API.The plugin architecture is also very nice for extensibility and has a wide community support.

React is a JavaScript library created and maintained at Facebook for building user interfaces, which aims to be declarative, making the code more predictable and easier to debug. React can be thought of the "V" (View) in "MVC" (Model, View, Controller architecture/design pattern). Views are modeled as components, the advantage of this that, we can pass rich data through the app and maintain state outside the DOM.

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Real Time Rails with Action Cable

by Srinidhi Prabandham on 10th August, 2017

Recent years have seen the rise of the real-time web. So what is real-time web?

The real-time web is a network web using technologies and practices that enable users to receive information as soon as it is published by its authors, rather than requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates.

Examples of the real-time web are Facebook's newsfeed, Notifications, and Twitter, implemented in social networking, search, Chat Applications and news sites.

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Mobile Native App Development with 11 React Native Tutorials

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 30th March, 2016

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write anywhere.

Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native. The paradigm employed by React Native allows it to use native iOS components and bring about changes to the UI through a JavaScript thread running in the background.

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15 EmberJS Tutorials for Building Awesome Web Applications

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 28th March, 2016

Ember.js is an open source JavaScript client-side framework for developing the web applications and uses the MVC architecture pattern.

Ember is used on many popular websites, including Discourse, Groupon, Vine, Live Nation, Nordstrom, and Chipotle. Although primarily considered a framework for the web, it is also possible to build desktop and mobile applications in Ember. The most notable example of an Ember desktop application is Apple Music, a feature of the iTunes desktop application.

Start learning Emberjs 2.0+ with the following tutorials available online.

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Learn ReactJS with 20 Free Online Tutorials

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 17th March, 2016

React.js is a Javascript library for building user interfaces which was developed by Facebook. It is known for its fast performance, it is one of the best choices for building mobile sites. The well-known applications build with React are Facebook and Instagram.

React, which is one of the most popular Javascript libraries and having strong React skills is a great way to get ahead with building modern web apps right now. It has a strong foundation and a large community behind it.

The following are the 20 free online tutorials available which could get you started with React.js.

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