Posts from all blogs: javascript

Celebrating over a year of @FlightJS

FlightJS is an evolving JavaScript framework project. See what’s happened since we initially open-sourced it over a year ago.Read more…

Rendering Tweets with AngularJS and Node.js

The steps involved to render embedded Tweets with AngularJS and the oEmbed API.Read more…

Bootstrap 3.0

We are thrilled to see the Bootstrap community announce the 3.0 release:Read more…

Twitter Typeahead.js: You Autocomplete Me

Twitter typeahead.js is a fast and battle-tested jQuery plugin for auto completion. Today we’re open sourcing the code on GitHub under the MIT license. By sharing a piece of our infrastructure with the open source community, we hope to evolve typeahead.js further with community input.Read more…

Introducing Flight: a web application framework

Last year we rolled out a major reimplementation of the Twitter website. In addition to shifting the rendering of our page content to the server (which achieved significant performance gains), we re-envisioned the entire client-side infrastructure with a clean, robust and easy-to-learn framework which we call Flight.Read more…

Implementing pushState for twitter.com

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As part of our continuing effort to improve the performance of twitter.com, we’ve recently implemented pushState. With this change, users experience a perceivable decrease in latency when navigating between sections of twitter.com; in some cases near zero latency, as we’re now caching responses on the client.Read more…