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The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Tools
23.1.2019
To a significant level, the success of a software engineer is highly dependent on the quality of the tools he uses for his craft. In this section, we will highlight the tools that feature prominent
How to Use Chrome Dev Tools to Find Performance Bottlenecks
17.1.2019
As one advances through a Software Development career, concerns beyond simply writing code that works arise. In the world of web development, it becomes pertinent to not only build functional softw
CSS doesn’t suck
15.1.2019
I'm not so protective of CSS that I'm above hearing it criticized, but I'm certainly in agreement here. CSS does not suck. I love how the post is framed to hype up current CSS features the way features of other languages and tools are hyped:
Imagine if a tech dude walked on stage at a conference...
Re: Pleasing Color Palettes
11.1.2019
There are so many tools out there to help you pick colors. I totally get it! It's hard! When colors are done well, it's like magic. It adds a level of polish to a design that can really set it apart.
Let's look at some, then talk about this idea some more.
Here's one I just saw called Color...
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...
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...
Level up your JavaScript error monitoring
13.12.2018
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The Best JavaScript and CSS Libraries for 2018
6.12.2018
A recap of our favorite web dev resources for 2018, featuring some of the best libraries, frameworks and tools of the past year
Bridging the Gap Between CSS and JavaScript: CSS Modules, PostCSS and the Future of CSS
4.12.2018
In the previous post in this two-part series, we explored the CSS-in-JS landscape and, we realized not only that CSS-in-JS can produce critical styles, but also that some libraries don’t even have a runtime. We saw that user experience can significantly improve by adding clever optimizations, which...
Code Challenge #14: Test Your Knowledge of React Hooks
27.11.2018
The front-end world of JavaScript keeps buzzing daily with new tools, technologies, and super updates! One of such recent release by the React.js team is React Hooks in React 16.7-alpha. Here's
Collective #470
22.11.2018
Demoboard * HTM * eDEX-UI * Spin Zone * Tools for Makers * Everyone starts from the bottom * Designer's Eye
Collective #470 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Get Started w/ Prisma for Super Simple GraphQL
14.11.2018
Almost every week we get to see a new tool or product being released for GraphQL development. Yeah, that's how hot the GraphQL ecosystem is currently is. Today, we'll be looking at one of the tools
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for November 2018
8.11.2018
This November's collection is packed with some powerful CSS frameworks, awesome date and time library and JS tools
Lessons in Failure: Removing the Old Debugger from Firefox
29.10.2018
Joining the Firefox DevTools team was a dream come true for me. I shared why in the first episode of the Script & Style show but the quick summary is that I grew up loving Firefox (even before it was called “Firefox”) because Mozilla cared about developers via their early developer...
Mercurial: Mass Add and Remove All Files
29.10.2018
While I much prefer git and the GitHub workflow, Firefox’s codebase (mozilla-central) is store in a mercurial repository. There are tools that wrap mercurial so you can use a git-like interface, like git-cinnabar, but my philosophy is to learn the root tool so that I know what’s going...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS libraries for September 2018
5.9.2018
In this article we share with you this September's collection of amazing resources, including a powerful CSS framework and some useful JS tools
10 Awesome Web Dev Tools & Resources For August 2018
16.8.2018
A collection of our favorite web dev resources for August, featuring Google's new augmented reality app, a couple of UNIX terminal tools, and some helpful productivity booster apps
Finite State Machines with React
24.7.2018
As JavaScript applications on the web have grown more complex, so too has the complexity of dealing with state in those applications — state being the aggregate of all the data that an application needs to perform its function. Over the last several years, there has been a ton of great...
Font Playground
20.7.2018
This is a wondrous little project by Wenting Zhang that showcases a series of variable fonts and lets you manipulate their settings to see the results. It’s interesting that there’s so many tools like this that have been released over the past couple of months, such as v-fonts, Axis-Praxis...
Building a Complex UI Animation in React, Simply
12.7.2018
Let’s use React, styled-components, and react-flip-toolkit to make our own version of the animated navigation menu on the Stripe homepage. It's an impressive menu with some slick animation effects and the combination of these three tools can make it relatively easy to recreate.
This is...