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The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
14.8.2019
Some people outright hate the idea of CSS-in-JS. Just that name is offensive. Hard no. Styling doesn't belong in CSS, it belongs in CSS, a thing that already exists and that browsers are optimized to use. Separation of concerns. Anything else is a laughable misstep, a sign of not learning from...
How to Become a Blockchain Developer
7.8.2019
Skilled blockchain developers are a scarce commodity, as precious as the bitcoins that reside on the distributed ledgers they maintain. Teach yourself one of the major blockchain programming languages and you’ll be set for life, though like anything worth having, this achievement won’t...
Pseudo Code
23.7.2019
Yonatan Doron wrote a post on Medium not long ago called "Art of Code — Why you should write more Pseudo Code." Love that title, as a fan of pseudo code myself. That is, writing "code" that describes something you want to do or communicate, but that isn't of any particular language and doesn't...
Using Percy to add visual testing to a Jekyll site
27.6.2019
Visual testing is the automated process of reviewing software from a purely visual standpoint. Instead of testing the code underneath, visual testing is all about what end users actually see and interact with.
Similar to functional testing, however, visual testing fits directly into your stack...
Using Percy to add visual testing to a Jekyll site
27.6.2019
Visual testing is the automated process of reviewing software from a purely visual standpoint. Instead of testing the code underneath, visual testing is all about what end users actually see and interact with.
Similar to functional testing, however, visual testing fits directly into your stack...
MIT’s ‘Fiat Cryptography’ System Automates the Process of Securing Almost Anything
20.6.2019
Gone are the days of manual encryption as MIT researchers create a way to automatically generate security algorithms
‘I Don’t Trust Facebook With Anything:’ The World Reacts to Facebook’s Libra
19.6.2019
The world reacted to Facebook's Libra launch with fear, uncertainty, and jokes. Here are a few choice quotes
Basic Attention Token Price Analysis: BAT Starts Picking Up Its Momentum But Does That Indicate Anything Positive After So Long?
13.6.2019
The market condition of the crypto sphere has attained no new heights as of now. This implies upon the fact that due to the characteristics of the market being volatile can adversely impact the altcoins. Again, not to forget about the most dominant, erratic and turbulent BTC due to which...
Using Cypress to Write Tests for a React Application
12.6.2019
End-to-end tests are written to assert the flow of an application from start to finish. Instead of handling the tests yourself — you know, manually clicking all over the application — you can write a test that runs as you build the application. That’s what we call continuous integration and it’s...
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2018: Render-Blocking Styles
28.5.2019
CSS files are rendered while rendering the actual document, not after. For this reason, the document has to wait for the CSS to be parsed and interpreted before anything is shown on the screen. The
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2019: Render-Blocking Styles
28.5.2019
CSS files are rendered while rendering the actual document, not after. For this reason, the document has to wait for the CSS to be parsed and interpreted before anything is shown on the screen. The
How I Use CleanMyMac X
21.5.2019
[Chris]: I'm a lifelong Mac user. Ever since our family upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Apple Macintosh Performa 636 (CD) when I was in middle school, I've never owned or worked on anything other than a Mac. I'm pretty dedicated to running a clean, fast, optimized, safe, and organized machine....
Everyone’s Talking About Security Tokens But No One’s Trading Them
21.5.2019
There’s a party happening right now and everyone’s invited. The music’s playing, the fridge is loaded and the bathtub’s full of ice. All the ingredients for the sickest soiree are in place. There’s just one problem: the guests have yet to arrive. Welcome to the world...
How to Travel the World With Bitcoin Cash
19.5.2019
Traveling is on everyone’s minds as summer approaches and crypto enthusiasts are no exception. But for anyone thinking of a holiday trip, travel arrangements can be arduous. Crypto payments can make your life easier in that regard, particularly with bitcoin cash, which is a fast and cheap...
Type Conversion with JavaScript Arrays
7.5.2019
JavaScript’s loose nature allows developers to employ amazing tricks to do just about anything you’d like. I’ve detailed how you can filter falsy values in arrays using a filter(Boolean) trick, but reader David Hibshman shared another trick for typecasting array values the same...
The Simplest Ways to Handle HTML Includes
30.4.2019
It's extremely surprising to me that HTML has never had any way to include other HTML files within it. Nor does there seem to be anything on the horizon that addresses it. I'm talking about straight up includes, like taking a chunk of HTML and plopping it right into another. For example the...
The Circle of a React Lifecycle
23.4.2019
A React component goes through different phases as it lives in an application, though it might not be evident that anything is happening behind the scenes.
Those phases are:
mounting
updating
unmounting
error handling
There are methods in each of these phases that make it possible to perform...
Netlify Functions for Sending Emails
23.4.2019
Let's say you're rocking a JAMstack-style site (no server-side languages in use), but you want to do something rather dynamic like send an email. Not a problem! That's the whole point of JAMstack. It's not just static hosting. It's that plus doing anything else you wanna do through JavaScript...
A Couple of New Wufoo Tips
4.4.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
High fives to Wufoo, our long-time sponsor here on CSS-Tricks. It's powered the vast majority of forms I've built over the past decade. If you've never used it or heard of it: it's a form builder. It makes the arduous task of implementing forms trivially easy. Building...
Make it hard to screw up driven development
2.4.2019
Development is complicated. Our job is an ongoing battle between getting the job done and doing that job in a safe, long-lasting way.
Developers say things like, "I'm just going to do this quick and dirty first," because it's taken as fact that if you code anything quickly, it not only will...