Animated Image Columns
16.5.2019
An experimental web layout where several image columns get animated out when a menu item is clicked.
Animated Image Columns was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...
A Better Approach for Using Purgecss with Tailwind
15.5.2019
Greg Kohn looks at how to use Purgecss — a tool that helps remove unused styles — and Tailwind — a utility-based CSS framework — and why we might want to pair these tools together:
Tailwind, by intention, is aiming to equip you with an arsenal of utility classes...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for May 2019
15.5.2019
A curated list of our favorite open-source projects for the month of May
React Starter: Using Create React App to Make React Applications
15.5.2019
Usually when you create a React application, you’ll be creating a single page app (SPA). In order to make setting up single page apps easier, a CLI tool called
Integrating Third-Party Animation Libraries to a Project
14.5.2019
Creating CSS-based animations and transitions can be a challenge. They can be complex and time-consuming. Need to move forward with a project with little time to tweak the perfect transition? Consider a third-party CSS animation library with ready-to-go animations waiting to be used. Yet, you might...
Google Fonts is Adding font-display
14.5.2019
Google announced at I/O that their font service will now support the font-display property which resolves a number of web performance issues. If you're hearing cries of joy, that's probably Chris as he punches the air in celebration. … Read article
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Using Array reduce
14.5.2019
Every developer who specializes in any programming language will tell you there’s a powerful tool the language provides that they rarely use and wish they knew more about. For me, it’s Array.prototype.reduce. I quite enjoy the other Array methods like map, filter, and find, but reduce...
Awesome Demos Roundup #4
14.5.2019
Another collection of fantastic coding experiments from around the web to ignite your creative fire.
Awesome Demos Roundup #4 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Collective #515
13.5.2019
Into the Personal-Website-Verse * mailgo * Fontanello * GitHub Package Registry * What's new in JavaScript
Collective #515 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Change Color of SVG on Hover
13.5.2019
There are a lot of different ways to use SVG. Depending on which way, the tactic for recoloring that SVG in different states or conditions — :hover, :active, :focus, class name change, etc. — is different.
Let's look at the ways.
Inline SVG
Inline SVG is my favorite way to use...
SVG Properties and CSS
13.5.2019
There are many Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), but only certain attributes can be applied as CSS to SVG. Presentation attributes are used to style SVG elements and can be used as CSS properties. Some of these attributes are SVG-only while others are already shared in CSS, such as font-size...