How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL
20.2.2019
Learn how to create an interactive "fake" 3D effect for images with depth maps and plain WebGL.
How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL was written by Yuriy Artyukh and published on Codrops
Social Cards as a Service
19.2.2019
I love the idea of programmatically generated images. That power is close at hand these days for us front-end developers, thanks to the concept of headless browsers. Take Puppeteer, the library for controlling headless Chrome. Generating images from URLs is their default use case:
const puppeteer...
Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
19.2.2019
Brad points out some UX problems with a variety of apps that are doing things a little outside of the norm when it comes to their login forms. There is already a bunch of things to get right with forms to begin with (e.g. use the right input types, label your inputs, don't have whack password...
Welcome to My New Office
19.2.2019
My first professional web development was at a small print shop where I sat in a windowless cubical all day. I suffered that boxed in environment for almost five years before I was able to find a remote job where I worked from home. The first thing I told myself when leaving that first...
Building a modern app using Nest.js, MongoDB and Vue.js
19.2.2019
Introduction
Nest.js introduces a modern way of building Node.js apps by giving it a proper and modular structure out of the box. It was fully built with TypeScript but still preserves com
SVG Filter Effects: Creating Texture with <feTurbulence>
19.2.2019
Learn how you can use the powerful SVG filter primitive <feTurbulence> to create your own textures and distortion effects.
SVG Filter Effects: Creating Texture with <feTurbulence> was written by Sara Soueidan and published on Codrops
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Combining Arrays Without Duplicates
19.2.2019
Combining Arrays Without Duplicates
When developing software, we often need to combine data efficiently and without repetition. This often comes up when manipulating listed data with the use Arrays
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Array Chunking
19.2.2019
This article marks the beginning of our array manipulation algorithms. In this article, we explore different techniques to chunk (split) an array into smaller units.
Array chunking is a tech
Working with TypeScript in Visual Studio Code
19.2.2019
TypeScript and Visual Studio Code are two amazing products created by Microsoft, and - surprise surprise- they work amazing together! Let's take a look at how Visual Studio Code makes it a breeze t
How @supports Works
18.2.2019
CSS has a neat feature that allows us to test if the browser supports a particular property or property:value combination before applying a block of styles — like how a @media query matches when, say, the width of the browser window is narrower than some specified size and then the CSS within...
instant.page
18.2.2019
instant.page is a pretty cool project from Alexandre Dieulot. Alexandre has been at this idea for half a decade now, as InstantClick is his and is essentially the same exact idea.
The idea is that there is a significant delay between hovering over a link and clicking that link. Say it takes...
IE10-Compatible Grid Auto-Placement with Flexbox
18.2.2019
If you work on web applications that support older browsers, and have lusted after CSS Grid from the sidelines like I have, I have some good news: I've discovered a clever CSS-only way to use grid auto-placement in IE10+!
Now, it's not actually CSS Grid, but without looking at the code itself,...