Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Free and Open Source book to teach Firefox OS app development
Hey Friends, I always considered doing a show HN about this but never took the jump but since we're in the Show HN carnival I decided to share it. I wrote a free and open source quick guide to teach Firefox OS application development. With this ebook you go from zero to a little application in the Firefox Marketplace. https://leanpub.com/quickguidefirefoxosdevelopment/ I created this to give away at hackathons and hack days because the Mozilla docs were spread all over the developer hub, mdn and the wiki so it was hard for new developers to find what they needed. The…
This is a free and open source ebook that teaches Firefox OS app development, guiding beginners from fundamentals to publishing an application in the Firefox Marketplace. The guide consolidates scattered Mozilla… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Free and Open Source book to teach Firefox OS app development launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I am excited to announce the launch of my e-book on Graphics/WebGPU programming! This project has consumed much of my spare time, during which I developed various tools to facilitate the publishing process, including a code playground and a static site generator that can reference sample codes. However, I'm feeling burnt out and ready to call it finished, even though it may not feel completely done. Avoiding another abandoned side project has been my primary motivation in reaching this point.
2024 · shi-yan.github.io · its alternatives →
- 2IM
Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…
2021 · its alternatives →
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I'm making a platform for simple open source games you can play anywhere. Games are all just JavaScript classes and you can read the source of every game on the platform. I started working on initial "games" (mostly rendering tests) in 2018 and eventually built all of the platform stuff around it to make it easy to share games. There's also an in-browser editor available for you to make and publish games all from the browser. Would love some feedback on the games and studio features as well as the platform overall. All of the code is available at https://github.com/homegamesio
Jul 2026 · homegames.io · its alternatives →
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Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games Tldr: We’ve made a framework for web-based board games. You can try out some games over at https://boardzilla.io, or you can take a look at https://docs.boardzilla.io to learn more about how to develop your own game. Source is available at https://github.com/boardzilla Hey y’all. My brother and I have made a framework for board games. During the pandemic we started to look at BGA but got discouraged by how old-fashioned the tools were and how cumbersome the development process was. We set out…
2024 · boardzilla.io · its alternatives →
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A collection of 100 UI/UX tips that I have collected since 2021
2021 · fifty.user-interface.io · its alternatives →
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The index lists either companies that work on open-source products or those that heavily contribute to open-source. Either way, ideal for devs that want to keep an eye out for opportunities. Engineering teams can post for free. Open directory of available positions is here [0]. [0] https://github.com/fossfox-com/fossfox
2023 · fossfox.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've been working on a book about WebAssembly over the last few months, and it's finally available at http://levelupwasm.com! Why a book on WebAssembly you ask? Well... WebAssembly is awesome (obviously ) but it's certainly not the easiest thing to learn. So I wrote this book as a practical intro to using WebAssembly in your web apps. I would appreciate any feedback!
2019 · its alternatives →
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Getting Real▲234The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.
2015 · basecamp.com · its alternatives →
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Create step-by-step product tours, user onboarding guides easily. Intro.js is a lightweight, open-source user onboarding library. Get started for free!
2016 · introjs.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Web Design▲234A book for programmers who want to learn design
2018 · hellowebbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Free eBook on cross platform mobile app development
2016 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
- 12AB
https://urbook.fordes.de/ …a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/ (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)
2022 · its alternatives →
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JavaScript.com▲217A free resource for learning and developing in JavaScript
2015 · javascript.com · its alternatives →
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Free ebook on how to optimize your websites
2017 · git-tower.com · its alternatives →
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Turn GitHub into a project management suite! Plus, socks
2015 · app.zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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An ebook with lots of tips and techniques on how to debug CSS the right way with easy and studied methods.
2020 · debuggingcss.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go. - thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Eloquent JavaScript ▲149Free ebook for the JS Beginners
2016 · eloquentjavascript.net · its alternatives →
- 19IM
2021 · zentrum.alles.cx · its alternatives →
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Read Your First Meteor Application online on Leanpub.
2014 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Hands-on introduction to making a web app using React.
2016 · hackingwithreact.com · its alternatives →
- 22MT
2011 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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A couple of years ago, I written an intro to tmux (https://tmux.github.io/) inside tmuxp's (https://github.com/tony/tmuxp) documentation called The Tao of tmux (https://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about_tmux.html). I'm in the process of turning it into a feature book. I am aiming for a December 23rd, 2016 release and am plugging away full time. I make it available to read on the web for free at https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read. The GitHub is at…
2016 · its alternatives →
- 24WW
Over three months ago, I posted my book on HN and got tremendous +ve reponse. I am happy to inform that I have published the book to leanpub as per the comments I got on HN itself! It is pay as you go model, and the minimum is $0 because I wanted to contribute back to the FOSS Community
2016 · its alternatives →
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