Scotch.io 2018 Year in Review: A Brutally Honest Look
19.12.2018
Another year down in the books! This was a big year for me personally since I will be turning 30 on January 7. Lats year in my 20s. Had to make it count!
I'd like to take a look back at 2018
Ease-y Breezy: A Primer on Easing Functions
18.12.2018
During the past few months, I’ve been actively teaching myself how to draw and animate SVG shapes. I’ve been using CSS transitions, as well as tools like D3.js, react-motion and GSAP, to create my animations.
One thing about animations in general and the documentation these and other animation...
5 Ways To Improve Development With Visual Studio Code
18.12.2018
Visual Studio Code is extremely flexible and powerful. By learning the ins and outs, you can greatly improve your speed, efficiency, and process as a developer. In this article, we'll look at the t
How to Worry About npm Package Weight
18.12.2018
It's all too easy to go crazy with the imports and end up with megabytes upon megabytes of JavaScript. It can be a problem as that weight burdens each and every visitor from our site, very possibly delaying or stopping them from doing what they came to do on the site. Bad for them, worse for you....
Build a Secure Node.js Application with JavaScript Async Await Using Hapi
18.12.2018
At the core of the JavaScript language is its asynchronous programming model. Unfortunately, dealing with callback functions has long been a source of frustration for many developers. JavaScript Pr
Inspirational Websites from 2018
18.12.2018
An inspirational collection of our favourite website designs from 2018.
Inspirational Websites from 2018 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
CSS Ellipsis Beginning of String
18.12.2018
I was incredibly happy when CSS text-overflow: ellipsis (married with fixed width and overflow: hidden was introduced to the CSS spec and browsers; the feature allowed us to stop trying to marry JavaScript width calculation with string width calculation and truncation. CSS ellipsis was also very...
Nobody is quite wrong.
17.12.2018
There are two opposing views on using non-polyfillable new web features that I find are both equally common in our industry:
Websites don't need to look the same in every browser. The concept of progressive enhancement helps with that. There are tools, even native language features, that help with...
A CSS Venn Diagram
17.12.2018
This is pretty wild: Adrian Roselli has made a series of rather complex Venn diagrams using nothing but CSS. With a combination of the Firefox dev inspector, plus a mixture of CSS Grid and the shape-outside property, it’s possible to do this and without a ton of hacks, too.
I also think it’s super...
Collective #477
17.12.2018
Rallax.js * Pampy.js * Using aria-live * Semi-Conductor * Remove.bg * I Threw Away my Mouse * Public and private class fields
Collective #477 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
How to Setup, Build and Deploy Native Apps with Vue
17.12.2018
Vue-Native is a framework written by GeekyAnts, it is a framework built to deliver cross platform mobile native applications. It is inspired by the React-native
Reversing an Easing Curve
17.12.2018
Let’s take a look at a carousel I worked on where items slide in and out of view with CSS animations. To get each item to slide in and out of view nicely I used a cubic-bezier for the animation-timing-function property, instead of using a standard easing keyword.
See the Pen Carousel with reversed...