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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.
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Hyperlinking Beyond the Web
11.7.2018
Hyperlinks are the oldest and the most popular feature of the web. The word hypertext (which is the ht in http/s) means text having hyperlinks. The ability to link to other people’s hypertext made the web, a web — a set of connected pages. This fundamental feature has made the web a very...
Add real-time comments to a Gatsby blog
26.6.2018
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This tutorial will show you how to add realtime comments to a Gatsby blog. You will use Node and Express to create a simple backend, allowing users to add and view comments instantly.
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An Almost Ideal React Image Component
21.6.2018
Yes, this is a React component, but regardless if you care about that part or not, the "ideal image component" part could be of interest. There is a lot to consider with how we put images on web pages these days. This deals with:
Placeholder space (and then flexible responsive styles after...
Truly understand your site visitors’ behavior
14.6.2018
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Your Brain on Front-End Development
13.6.2018
Part of the job of being a front-end developer is applying different techniques and technologies to pull of the desired UI and UX. Perhaps you work with a design team and implement their designs. I know when I look at a design (heck, even if I know I'm not going to be building it), my front-end...
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31.5.2018
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Build a realtime polling web app with Next.js
29.5.2018
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Solving Life’s Problems with CSS
28.5.2018
Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.
Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, "Yeah, representing the tech field!" in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp feeling of panic.
Like many people who work on UIs for a living, I have difficulty applying...
Browser Extensions I Actually Use
27.5.2018
I use around 10 at the moment and they all provide functionality to me I find extremely important. Sometimes that functionality is every day all day. Sometimes it's once in a blue moon but when you need it, you need it.
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Service Worker Cookbook
25.5.2018
I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has it all.
You can also check out our guide to making...
Learning Gutenberg: Building Our Custom Card Block
25.5.2018
We’ve got some base knowledge, we’ve played with some React and now we’ve got our project tools set up. Let’s dive into building our custom block.
Article Series:
Series Introduction
What is Gutenberg, Anyway?
A Primer with create-guten-block
Modern...
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24.5.2018
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Unicode Patterns
18.5.2018
These Unicode patterns by Yuan Chuan are extraordinarily clever. It's a <css-doodle> custom web component that sets up a CSS grid and randomizes what character to drop into a cell and things, like color.
See all their gorgeous work on CodePen and the very cool <css-doodle> website...
Custom List Number Styling
18.5.2018
How about a classic CSS trick! This isn't even so tricky anymore, since CSS has counter-increment and counter-reset and such that is perfect for this. I just wanted to make sure you knew how it works and had some easy-to-copy examples at the ready.
Let's say all you wanna do is style the dang...
Turn Sublime Text 3 into a JavaScript IDE
11.5.2018
Sublime Text is one of the most popular editors for web development and software development in general. It’s very smooth and fast compared to other editors (being written in C++ helps that speed). Sublime also has tons of plugins you can find through Package Control.
But it’s only a text editor...
Responsive Knockout Text With Looping Video
3.5.2018
Here’s an idea! Let’s make an an HTML <video> play inside the shape of some letters. Like "Knockout Text" except instead of an image behind, it’s video. A live demo will explain more clearly:
See the Pen basic pen by Giulio Mainardi (@mgiulio) on CodePen.
A key objective here is to develop...
Incapsula DDoS Resiliency Score
3.5.2018
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Container-Adapting Tabs With “More” Button
2.5.2018
Or the priority navigation pattern, or progressively collapsing navigation menu. We can name it in at least three ways.
There are multiple UX solutions for tabs and menus and each of them have their own advantages over another, you just need to pick the best for the case you are trying to solve....
Solved With CSS! Dropdown Menus
1.5.2018
A common UI pattern that we see on the web are dropdown menus. They’re used to display related information in pieces, without overwhelming the user with buttons, text, and options. Somewhere that we see these a lot is inside of headers or navigation areas on websites.
Let’s see if we can make...