At AddThis, we’re always striving to deliver top-quality web tools. Our tools should not only look great and function across all platforms, but they should do so with as small an impact as possible on the load times of your website.
Here at AddThis, we just completed a rewrite of our dashboard using Facebook’s React.js framework and the Flux application architecture. Managing a large Javascript application as its complexity, number of users, and number of developers grows is something that we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about during this process. In this post I’ll attempt to distill down some of the lessons we learned along the way and how React.js and Flux can help to address them. Continue reading
There are some instances where JavaScript won’t work, such as email and with some content management systems. Yet we have a simple solution that can still get sharing buttons onto your next email campaign.
JavaScript design patterns are important for the maintainability and scalability of web applications. For Smart Layers, we focused on writing DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), consistent, and cross-browser compliant code. Before we talk about the specific techniques that we used, let’s first understand the Smart Layers use case.