I would usually post this to wedtech but it has as much non-tech interest
as tech.
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/the-technology-behind-the-nytimes-com-redesign/?_r=0
Basically a blow by blow of the complete redesign of the NYTimes. Not
just "looks" but computer/web architecture, using many recent elements:
backbone, grunt, require, LESS, jquery (legacy browsers), backbone and
more.
Here's a dense example:
Adding structure to our JavaScript
The redesign required a lot of JavaScript to be written to support a
dynamic and personalized feature set. A robust framework was necessary to
enable modules to live together without being tightly coupled.
Backbone.js<http://backbonejs.org/>
and RequireJS <http://requirejs.org/> provided structure and a standard
way of writing code. We chose Backbone because it provided a desirable
amount of flexibility and is less opinionated than other frameworks.
jQuery<http://jquery.com/>
, Modernizr <http://modernizr.com/>, SockJS <http://sockjs.org/>,
Underscore.js <http://underscorejs.org/>and
Hammer.js<http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/> were
supporting libraries, and we also took advantage of
Mocha<http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/>
and Chai <http://chaijs.com/> to supply test coverage to our modules.
Is that hip or what!
-- Owen
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