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Code playgrounds make it easy to experiment, share code, and show off your skills! Learn about seven of the best front-end code playgrounds.

React eases the development of snappy, event-driven user interfaces that are fast at responding to state changes. This is particuarly important considering users expect web apps to feel smooth and seamless like native apps. In this article, you'll learn about what React is good at and what makes it work. This should provide you with the context required to decide if this library could be a good fit for your next project, and whether you should learn React.

Are you using the best development tools? Is your CSS compilation complicated? Have you bungled your JavaScript bundling? Craig discusses what we're using.

At first glance, Meteor and Electron may seem similar, Zack investigates the very different strengths of each and explains when to use each one.

Shaumik Daityari looks at what makes Python suited to web development, and why it's the go-to language for an increasing number of web developers.

Kevin Kononenko introduces "data binding" or "data joins" in d3.js, explaining how data is tied to actual elements in the DOM.

Matthew Setter explains how he sets up his Mac OS X development machine, from text editors like Sublime Text, to version control tools like SourceTree

Slack is an increasingly popular collaboration tool for startups and larger organizations. Shaumik Daityari explans how to make it even more useful.

Tim Evko shows 5 different ways people have harnessed web data, using the free tools from import.io.

From operating system to web browser to version control software, Shaumik Daityari explains how he sets up a new machine for development.

Younes Rafie explains how we can use Laravel Cashier to add a paid membership option to our web application via Stripe

A roundup of learning tools, documentation, and guidelines for front-end developers.

Lukas White runs through Assetic basics and explains various uses of this asset manager through detailed code snippets

Lukas White introduces JadePHP - the PHP implementation of the popular Jade templating engine.

Learn how to force Apache to ignore cached gettext translations - the class described in this article helps you keep your translations fresh.

Learn to use Foundation's Interchange to generate different static content depending on client screen size

In this comparison of Imagick vs GD, learn the pros and cons of each of these PHP image manipulation libraries.

Learn how to detect misspelled user input and suggest alternatives with the pspell PHP extension

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This article shows you how you can easily generate PDF documents using PHP with the Dompdf library.

This article looks in detail at the Browser Capabilities Project, or Browscap for short, to sniff browser information so you can alter content server-side.

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This topic is going to teach you about Craig Buckler's What's New in jQuery 1.9 - Part 1. Enjoy!

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Six online tools that are great at helping people to understand HTML5 and at helping people learn how to create HTML5 websites.

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In the same way Node.js enables devs to build fast web apps, the SitePoint Jump Start series helps readers get up to speed with new topics in a weekend.

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