Algolia is a privately held company created by developers, veterans in the fields of algorithms, search engines and text mining. They develop DocSearch, which is a search-as-a-service API to help developers deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience in their applications and websites. They enable super fast and relevant search experiences in no time with our worldwide infrastructure deployed in 14 different regions (28 different datacenters). In one click, you can distribute your search on several regions with their Distributed Search Network infrastructure.
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Demo: https://community.algolia.com/docsearch/
License: License Free
ReqRes is a bare-bones ExpressJS application that is a hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests. You can develop with real response codes. GET, POST, PUT & DELETE supported. No more tedious sample data creation, they’ve got it covered.
Reqres simulates real application scenarios. If you want to test a user authentication system, Reqres will respond to a successful login/register request with a token for you to identify a sample user, or with a 403 forbidden response to an unsuccessful login/registration attempt. When prototyping a new interface, you just want an API there, with minimal setup effort involved.
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Demo: http://reqres.in/
License: License Free
ScrollReveal.js is a library to easily reveal elements as they enter the viewport. It’s very small in size, as its weight is roughly 3Kb if minified and gzipped. It has no dependencies, so you don’t need to add other libraries to use it like jQuery. In addition to the nice effects it supports, what I really like about this library is that you can use natural language to define the animation you want to run. ScrollReveal supports 3d rotation out of the box, but you may want to emphasize the effect by specifying a perspective property on your container.
Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: https://scrollrevealjs.org/
License: MIT License
In today’s world, startups have become global which means a potential employee’s location no longer means not being able to hire the best IT staff. Remote teams have become common practice in this generation of technologically advanced workforce. It’s a new day and age and all businesses are turning more and more to using remote teams for their IT departments and utilizing the numerous online tools available that make this possible.
With tools like Jira, GitHub and Skype it allows for a more organized approach to the process of software development. The first step for new starting new IT projects is to find the best talent for the most optimal cost affective bang for your buck. There is another great online tool that will make hiring developers a whole lot easier. It’s called Tests4Geeks. Tests4Geeks is an IT Skill Assessment sight.
Startups are not simply looking to hire the best developers, but are always in search ways of to prevent wasting valuable time. There is nothing more frustrating than to spend an hour or more interviewing a candidate, only to realize during the process it was a complete waste of time. Of course face to face real time interviews are still the best way to vet potential candidates, but wouldn’t it be great to know before you take the time to do so that the person you are interviewing indeed has the skills you are looking for? With Tests4Geeks companies can now test potential interviewees BEFORE you take time out of your busy day to talk to them. Read the rest of this entry »
AntiModerate is the progressive image loading library for great good. Reduce loading time of page to less than a second on slow connections by loading and rendering nicely blurred micro images on the page while loading full sized images in background which replace as they finish. Has a nice blur effect thanks to StackBlur so you have a good looking page while it is loading. Library is space optimized, with gzip it is less than 2kb.
Requirements: JavaScript Library
Demo: https://github.com/whackashoe/antimoderate
License: License Free
Ad blocking is one of the hot topics in website design and development right now. Adblock Identifier is a sweet little tool that detects ad blocking software and creates an alert for users that functionality will be disabled if the ad block is left running.
Installation is key with this tool and you should follow the instructions carefully. Customization options include the title, description and theme for how the message looks. It comes with light and dark options with a light default. You have a few customization options to think about, including the text in the alert message. The tool allows you to keep users from specific content if they are using ad block software or just warn them for next time.
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Demo: https://github.com/balajmarius/Adi.js
License: License Free
Copying text to the clipboard shouldn’t be hard. It shouldn’t require dozens of steps to configure or hundreds of KBs to load. But most of all, it shouldn’t depend on Flash or any bloated framework. That’s why clipboard.js exists. This library relies on both Selection and execCommand APIs. The second one is supported in the following browsers: Chrome 42+, Firefox 41+, IE 9+, Opera 29+, Safari X.
Requirements: JavaScript Library
Demo: http://zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js/
License: MIT License
ESLint is an open source JavaScript linting utility originally created by Nicholas C. Zakas in June 2013. Code linting is a type of static analysis that is frequently used to find problematic patterns or code that doesn’t adhere to certain style guidelines. There are code linters for most programming languages, and compilers sometimes incorporate linting into the compilation process.
The primary reason ESLint was created was to allow developers to create their own linting rules. ESLint is designed to have all rules completely pluggable. The default rules are written just like any plugin rules would be. They can all follow the same pattern, both for the rules themselves as well as tests. While ESLint will ship with some built-in rules to make it useful from the start, you’ll be able to dynamically load rules at any point in time. ESLint is written using Node.js to provide a fast runtime environment and easy installation via npm.
Requirements: JavaScript Library
Demo: http://eslint.org/
License: License Free
Vectr is a Free Design App For Web + Desktop. Today, Vectr’s desktop apps require an internet connection, but eventually Vectr’s desktop apps will be updated to run fully offline just like any other desktop app. There is Live Exports support, link your website’s graphics to Vectr documents, then update them forever without touching code. Just insert a Vectr document with an <img> tag, adding .svg, .jpg, or .png to the Vectr document’s url.
You can also Share Vectr document urls for quick visual feedback – anyone with the link will see your changes in real-time. Annotate an image, mock something up, or share a high-fidelity designs with others – no more email attachments. Don’t let Vectr’s simple interface fool you. Vectr is pro-calibre design software – but without the learning curve.
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Demo: https://vectr.com/
License: License Free
Modernizr has redesigned and built the site from the ground up to give the website a refresh as well as make the builder a whole lot more powerful for beginners and advanced users. From just creating a simple build to grabbing a config, to implementing in your build process, through to a really cool solution of dynamically creating a custom package that can be installed via bower. The internal structure of Modernizr has been completely revamped, making it easier to contribute to and easier to customize/extend Modernizr’s licensing has changed: they have moved from a BSD license to MIT.
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Demo: https://modernizr.com/
License: MIT License
