Get to Know React's New Context API
18.5.2018
In a world where there are lots of different front-end frameworks, it's always hard to know which one to pick. Do I want to use the ever popular Angular? Or would diving into VueJS be beneficial to
Unicode Patterns
18.5.2018
These Unicode patterns by Yuan Chuan are extraordinarily clever. It's a <css-doodle> custom web component that sets up a CSS grid and randomizes what character to drop into a cell and things, like color.
See all their gorgeous work on CodePen and the very cool <css-doodle> website...
Custom List Number Styling
18.5.2018
How about a classic CSS trick! This isn't even so tricky anymore, since CSS has counter-increment and counter-reset and such that is perfect for this. I just wanted to make sure you knew how it works and had some easy-to-copy examples at the ready.
Let's say all you wanna do is style the dang...
WDRL — Edition 228: Responsive CSS Tables, Progressive Enhancement And Free Product Design Principles
18.5.2018
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we often talk about performance and request browsers to render things faster. But when they finally do, we as developers use the chance to demand even more performance. Alex Russel from the Chrome team shared some thoughts on developer abuse of browser performance and explains why websites...
How Error Monitoring Helps You Find Bugs BEFORE Users Do
18.5.2018
One of the biggest distractions to any software team building web and mobile applications is the act of fixing up problems in previously written code.
I'm willing to bet that your personal p
Code Challenge #10: Lazy Loading Animal Memes
18.5.2018
In a bid to lower the load times of a website, several techniques have been developed. One such technique is the lazy loading of images on the page.
TL, DR
Build Nodejs APIs Using Serverless
17.5.2018
Simona Cotin did a great talk at Microsoft Build about Serverless technologies, called "Build Node APIs Using Serverless." In this talk, she addresses pretty much every major gotcha that you might run into while creating Serverless infrastructure for JavaScript applications. Some of the topics...
Collective #416
17.5.2018
Responsive tables, revisited * Screely * Working Type * backdrop-filter * Dumb React * A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties
Collective #416 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
How React Reconciliation Works
17.5.2018
React is fast! Some of that speed comes from updating only the parts of the DOM that need it. Less for you to worry about and a speed gain to boot. As long as you understand the workings of setState(), you should be good to go. However, it’s also important to familiarize yourself with how this...
The Ultimate Guide to Headless CMS
17.5.2018
(This is a sponsored post.)
The World Has Changed—So Must the CMS
Having a responsive website is no longer enough. Your audience expects a seamless and personalized customer experience across all their devices—the age of headless technology is coming.
Headless CMS is the next generation in content...
Responsive tables, revisited
16.5.2018
Lea Verou with some extra super fancy CSS trickery. No way we could miss linking this one up!
One of the problems with responsive table solutions, at least the ones where you are using CSS to rejigger things, is that there is duplicated content somewhere. Either in CSS or HTML.
Lea finds two ways...
Detect WebVR Support with JavaScript
16.5.2018
It’s been two years since I was heavily involved with WebVR at Mozilla but, despite not contributing every day, I can see VR making leaps and bounds, from Firefox making an increased effort to Chrome pushing VR and Oculus and HTC (Vive) improving their offerings. Native games are getting...