Firebase: Get Your Apps Off the Ground Blazing Fast
9.4.2019
Google has invested heavily to make Firebase a full-featured application platform for web. It's dirt cheap to use. It's reliable. It saves up to 50% of yo
Native Lazy Loading
9.4.2019
IntersectionObserver has made lazy loading a lot easier and more efficient than it used to be, but to do it really right you still gotta remove the src and such, which is cumbersome. It's definitely not as easy as:
<img src="celebration.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="..." />
Addy Osmani says...
Collective #506
8.4.2019
World Draw * Native lazy-loading * El Grapho * Illustrated.dev * Hyper Editor * Animating SVG with CSS
Collective #506 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Testing for Visual Regressions with Percy
8.4.2019
It’s a Herculean task to test
AI-Based Video Preview from Cloudinary (Sponsored)
8.4.2019
The early days of video on the web weren’t great. We started with custom browser plugins and codecs, then moved to Flash, and eventually we found our way HTML <video>. Once we solved the technology problem, we started using more video for content and advertising. The next problem...
Going Full-Time on Scotch.io After 5 Years!
8.4.2019
This post will be short and sweet. No, I'm not going full-time on drinking some alcohol (part-time on that definitely).
After 5 years of being a side project, Scotch.io will be
Community Coding For The Web
8.4.2019
Open source barriers
Right now, it's too hard to contribute to open source.
This leads to a few things that are bad:
People who have good ideas don't co
Creating an Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code
8.4.2019
Extension Packs in Visual Studio Code are extremely useful when you want to install a collection of related extensions. In this article, let's walk through the steps of creating an Extension Pack s
Undefined: The Third Boolean Value
5.4.2019
I wanted to implement a notification message in one of my projects, similar to what you’d see in Google Docs while a document is saving. In other words, a message shows up indicating that the document is saving every time a change is made. Then, once the changes are saved, the message becomes: “All...
Revisiting the Rendering Tier
5.4.2019
Have you ever created a well-intentioned, thoughtful design system only to watch it grow into an ever-increasing and scary codebase? I've been working in sort of the opposite direction, inheriting the scary codebase and trying to create a thoughtful system from it.
Here's Alex Sanders on the topic...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Range Sum
5.4.2019
Sometimes, while performing mathematical calculations, there comes the need to sum up a range of numbers. Some programming languages make this easy by implementing helper functions that enable one
Collective #505
4.4.2019
CSSBattle * Yet Another JavaScript Framework * x-ray * A progressive disclosure component * Gimli
Collective #505 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops