Deep Dive Into GraphQL Queries
13.2.2019
In my last GraphQL post, I talked about the good and bad sides of GraphQL. In this post, we'll take an in-depth look at GraphQ
Grid Reveal Effects with Anime.js
13.2.2019
Some experiments with the new staggering system of Anime.js where we try different effects for hiding and showing thumbnails in an image grid.
Grid Reveal Effects with Anime.js was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
A Site for Front-End Development Conferences (Built with 11ty on Netlify)
12.2.2019
I built a new little site! It's a site for listing upcoming conferences in the world of front-end web design and development. In years past (like 2017), Sarah Drasner took up this daunting job. We used a form for new conference submissions, but it was still a rather manual task of basically...
Quick! What’s the Difference Between Flexbox and Grid?
12.2.2019
Let's go rapid fire and try to answer this question with quick points rather than long explanations. There are a lot of similarities between flexbox and grid, starting with the fact that they are used for layout and much more powerful than any layout technique that came before them. They...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the JavaScript
12.2.2019
Around this time last year, I wrote an article about the JavaScript learning landscape. Within that article, you’ll find my grand plans to learn JavaScript — complete with a link to a CodePen Collection I started for tracking my progress, and it even got dozens of comments cheering me on.
Like most...
SVG Filter Effects: Conforming Text to Surface Texture with <feDisplacementMap>
12.2.2019
Learn how to make text conform to the texture of a surface using feDisplacementMap in this fifth article of our SVG Filter series.
SVG Filter Effects: Conforming Text to Surface Texture with <feDisplacementMap> was written by Sara Soueidan and published on Codrops
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Anagrams
12.2.2019
Hooray! This article marks the last string manipulation challenge in this section of this course. We've come a long way!
22 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Web Development
12.2.2019
One of the most impressive parts of Visual Studio Code is customizability, especially via extensions. If you're a web developer, you won't be able to live without installing these extensions!
Simple Crazy Buttons in VanillaJS (Solution to Code Challenge #15)
11.2.2019
Last week on the code challenge #15 we set out to complete a challenge on manipulating DOM properties
Where Do You Nest Your Sass Breakpoints?
11.2.2019
I love nesting my @media query breakpoints. It's perhaps the most important feature of Sass to me. Maybe I pick a method and do it like this:
.element {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 100px 1fr;
@include breakpoint(baby-bear) {
display: block;
}
}
That's straightforward enough....
The ineffectiveness of lonely icons
11.2.2019
Icons are great and all, but as we've been shown time and time again, they often don't do the job all by themselves. Even if you do a good job with the accessibility part and make sure there is accompanying text there for assistive technology, in an ironic twist, you might be confusing people...
How to use console in node.js
11.2.2019
Introduction
In this article, we'll learn how to use most methods available in the nodeJS console class more effectively.
To demonstrate, I'll use Chrome browser version 70