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Coinbase Launches New Wallet Web App to Streamline Onchain Activity
11.7.2024
San Francisco crypto firm Coinbase has introduced a new web application for its wallet, designed to provide users with a unified platform for managing onchain assets. The application aims to simplify the experience for users by offering a comprehensive view of their crypto holdings across various...
Coinbase Unveils Web App to Track Personal On-Chain Wallets
11.7.2024
Jumping in on a continued effort by wallet makers to simplify access and user experience, particularly for newcomers, Coinbase (COIN) is introducing an app that lets users manage all of their on-chain wallets and activities in one place, the company announced Thursday
Inline Image Previews with Sharp, BlurHash, and Lambda Functions
19.5.2022
Don’t you hate it when you load a website or web app, some content displays and then some images load — causing content to shift around? That’s called content reflow and can lead to an incredibly annoying user experience for …
Inline Image Previews with Sharp...
Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App
28.4.2022
In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, …
Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App
11.1.2022
Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of configuration options. Oh—and it’s fast. Incredibly fast.
This post will walk through the process of converting an existing …
Adding...
Why would a business push a native app over a website?
10.12.2021
I wanted to write down what I think the reasons are here in December of 2021 so that we might revisit it from time to time in the future and see if these reasons are still relevant. I’m a web …
How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website
18.10.2021
I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of WordPress websites are built with a good ol’ fashioned WordPress theme. Most of …
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CSS Smooth Scroll
19.4.2021
Improving the user experience of web applications has always been a priority of mine. I always come back to the same though I’ve had for 20 years: “users expect a web app to work — let’s make the app a joy to use.” Over the years we’ve employed JavaScript...
How We Improved the Accessibility of Our Single Page App Menu
25.2.2021
I recently started working on a Progressive Web App (PWA) for a client with my team. We’re using React with client-side routing via React Router, and one of the first elements that we made was the main menu. Menus …
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Progressive Web Apps in 2021
12.2.2021
Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are:
At the end of 2020, approximately 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% had an installable Web App
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Continuous Performance Analysis with Lighthouse CI and GitHub Actions
23.12.2020
Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. The easiest way to use it is through the Chrome DevTools panel. Once you open the DevTools, you will see a “Lighthouse” tab. Clicking the “Generate report”...
Building Your First Serverless Service With AWS Lambda Functions
29.5.2020
Many developers are at least marginally familiar with AWS Lambda functions. They’re reasonably straightforward to set up, but the vast AWS landscape can make it hard to see the big picture. With so many different pieces it can be daunting, and frustratingly hard to see how they fit seamlessly into...
React Suspense in Practice
19.3.2020
This post is about understanding how Suspense works, what it does, and seeing how it can integrate into a real web app. We'll look at how to integrate routing and data loading with Suspense in React. For routing, I'll be using vanilla JavaScript, and I'll be using my own micro-graphql-react GraphQL...
iOS 13 Design Guidelines, Templates, and Downloads
21.2.2020
Erik Kennedy wrote up a bunch of design advice for designing for the iPhone. Like Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, only illustrated and readable, says Erik.
This is mostly for native iOS apps kinda stuff, but it makes me wonder how much of this is expected when doing a mobile Progressive...
Getting Started with Front End Testing
20.1.2020
Amy Kapernick covers four types of testing that front-end devs could and should be doing:
Linting (There's ESLint for JavaScript and Stylelint or Prettier for CSS.)
Accessibility Testing (Amy recommends pa11y, and we've covered Axe.)
Visual Regression Testing (Amy recommends Backstop, and we've...
Weekly Platform News: Web Apps in Galaxy Store, Tappable Stories, CSS Subgrid
8.11.2019
In this week's roundup: Firefox gains locksmith-like powers, Samsung's Galaxy Store starts supporting Progressive Web Apps, CSS Subgrid is shipping in Firefox 70, and a new study confirms that users prefer to tap into content rather than scroll through it.
Let's get into the news.
Securely...
New Web App Scans GitHub For Secrets Like Crypto Keys And Passwords
30.10.2019
Shhgit web app will scan the GitHub code repository and search for sensitive secrets, such as private crypto keys and passwords
Weekly Platform News: WebAPK Limited to Chrome, Discernible Focus Rectangles, Modal Window API
25.10.2019
In this week's roundup: "Add to home screen" has different meanings in Android, Chrome and Edge add some pop to focus rectangles on form inputs, and how third-party sites may be coming to a modal near you.
Let's get into the news.
WebAPKs are not available to Firefox on Android
On Android, both...
Weekly Platform News: Apple Deploys Web Components, Progressive HTML Rendering, Self-Hosting Critical Resources
13.9.2019
In this week's roundup, Apple gets into web components, how Instagram is insta-loading scripts, and some food for thought for self-hosting critical resources.
Apple deploys web components built using Stencil
The new Apple Music web app (beta) uses a JavaScript framework (Ember.js) but also...
Maskable Icons: Android Adaptive Icons for Your PWA
29.8.2019
There is a new web feature called maskable icons that is coming soon to Firefox Preview and other web browsers. This new icon format will let your PWAs have their own adaptive icons on Android.
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