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Top 5 useless but funny JavaScript plugins

Internet is full of useless and/or funny plugins that made my day several times in the past. Whatever dumb things you can think of, you can be sure that someone already made a plugin for it! Here is my top 5 useless but funny JavaScript plugins!

• Javascript

Animate.css

With animate.css you do not have to worry about making your own cross browser animations anymore. Animate.css is great CCS animation library that has a large set of animations ready out the box.

• Animation
• Css

Create a “load more” widget using AngularJS, Ajax and Bootstrap 3

Prerequisite

Make sure you have basics on Bootstrap 3 Framework and AngularJS. If you are used to Boostrap 2.3.2 here is a post I wrote about what’s new in Twitter Bootstrap 3

• AngularJS

How to automatically checkout the latest tag of a Git repository

Now that you know How to automatically tag a Git repository an interesting command to know about is “How to automatically checkout the latest tag of a Git repository”. Let’s imagine that you want to automatically release a stable version of your product (that have dependencies or not) based on the latest version available on your repository.

An easy way to do it is to follow the following steps:

# Get new tags from the remote
$ git fetch --tags

# Get the latest tag name
$ latestTag=$(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)

# Checkout the latest tag
$ git checkout $latestTag

• Git