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This article at SmashingMagazine was published on 5th March 2015. It explained the motivation and benefits of style-guide-driven development and component-based approach in frontend.

This time I would like to share my experience of keeping a codestyle in one of my working projects. This is about a new tool called JSCS which we have recently chosen with the team and now are very pleased with the result. Once I joined SC5 Styleguide project, I discovered that it was not consistent enough from its codestyle perspective. It was not frightening by that time, but it was already clear that the project was going to grow fast and the sooner we start bothering about keeping the codestyle the better. I was already aware about JSCS and its features because had published a…

I use the same laptop for both work and personal needs. This is useful but makes me see to keeping my work-life balance. I do this simply — turn off all the applications running when I finish my working day in the evening. The only issue is not to forget to open them again next day. But this process can be automatized. :-) The most important is to run the applications which are in use by the other team members. For example, I a Jabber app has to be running since the workday has started. The same goes for any other messenger. We here at AppGyver use Flowdock for team communication. So I…

Long time ago I could read and learn about web development in Russian only. Later, having completed an English language course, I began to read articles and blogs in English more and more. The same went for conferences: I visited Russian-speaking conferences at first and later switched to English-speaking conferences in Europe. In both articles and conference talks, I noticed how the content was different depending on the language used. Sometime I even thought that the communities evolve in different ways and follow different directions. My Russian-speaking colleagues indeed know the " HTML…

As a mobile apps user you may be already familiar to drawers. They are quite popular solution for a side menu. Using Steroids HTML5/JavaScript framework for hybrid mobile applications, you can bring such an interface solution into your product very easy. The usage of drawers explained here is demonstrated in the Steroids Kitchensink open source application. This is now being developed set of most useful examples for Steroids. As the application is constantly changing, I will freeze the code examples at 28 May 2014 . To explore the application in your mobile device or in a simulator clone…

Let me present a stub for docpad-run project with bem-built static assets. If you ever wanted to be a generic blog holder equiped with nice and neat static files, here we go. How to start You need install the docpad first. Follow their Installation Guide . Then, the installation of the blog is super short and easy. Clone, fork or copy from the docpad-bem-stub repository . Then, go though the 3 installation steps: With these 3 steps you will get: a local server with a generic docpad blog; bem-core and bem-components libraries of reusable CSS/JavaScript/templates code; fully tuned…