Code School just launched JavaScript.com, a page dedicated to all things JS. Basically, the page is split into Resources and News, which can also be subscribed to via an Email Newsletter called FiveJS (5 Minutes of JavaScript).
First thought: Heck, i wanna to know what they paid for this domain.
Second thought while looking through the news and resources: After all these years working with the web it still amazes me how much knowledge you can get for free.
A great presentation by Beau Lebens about how to build dynamic Applications using Backbone.js and the upcoming WP-API.
Eric Andrew Lewis, one of the core developers behind the “new” (v3.5+) WP Media Workflow gave a talk at the WordCamp Philly about wp.media. While the video has terrible Audio quality which makes it a bit hard to understand, he gives some solid insights into how things work behind the scenes and how we can (at least somewhat) customize a Media Frame or create custom ones.
During the talk he shares a graphical representation of all the Backbone Views and Models that wp.media utilizes, which can be found here:
In case you were wondering, this is what the #WordPress Media Backbone looks like…UML-ish-ly. https://t.co/9Ot6qfwyTU
— eric (@ericandrewlewis) May 6, 2014
If you want to understand how wp.media works, you should check out Eric’s Plugin WordPress Media Javascript Guide and he also started the WordPress Media Core Developer Documentation, which i really hope he finds some time to carry on.
After several not so successful attempts to understand Backbone.js by just staring at the code in WordPress Core that makes up the Media Uploader, i decided it is time to jump in and learn some more about it from scratch. It’s pretty overwhelming at first, especially if your JavaScript knowledge is only basic, which is one thing i’d like to change this year.
I might share some of the best tutorials and introductions i found useful along my way in a later post, but for now here’s a good short video introduction to the basics of Backbone.js by Sidney Maestre that i just found: