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Digging Into React Context
11.6.2018
You may have wondered lately what all the buzz is about Context and what it might mean for you and your React sites. Before Context, when the management of state gets complicated beyond the functionality of setState, you likely had to make use of a third party library. Thanks to recent updates...
Collective #423
11.6.2018
JSUI * Pickr * The Most Powerful Font * Devpen * Awesome design patterns * LogicEmu * MapKit JS * jsconfeu-generative-visuals
Collective #423 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Uppy File Uploading
11.6.2018
One of the big tasks I was charged with at my first job was setting up a system by which any customer or potential customer (aka anonymous user) could upload PDF and image files. I had loads of constraints to deal with: browser support, server settings, variance in user tech knowledge, etc....
8 Emmet Tips You Might Not Know
8.6.2018
Emmet (who remembers when it was called Zen Coding?) is a very useful code editor tool that brings snippets and supercharged shortcuts for generating HTML/markup and
Writing Snapshot Tests For React Components With Jest
8.6.2018
In this tutorial, we will be looking at what snapshot tests are and how we can use snapshot testing to ensure our User Interface does not change without the team knowing about it.
To get sta
Creating a VS Code Theme
8.6.2018
Everyone has special and perhaps, particular, tastes when it comes to their code editor. There are literally thousands of themes out there, and for good reason: a thing of beauty and enhancement to productivity for one can be a hindrance to another.
It’s been an item on my bucket list to create...
WDRL — Edition 231: Pupeteer 15, Safari 12, Tracking Protection, Card Modules, Web Performance Tips And A CORS Guide
8.6.2018
Hey,
it’s interesting how we can always think we know almost everything about something but then realize that we actually don’t know much. I had this feeling when reading through Heydon Pickering’s article about building a card with code: A lot of these things are clear but there are so many...
World wide wrist
7.6.2018
After all the hubbub with WWDC over the past couple of days, Ethan Marcotte is excited about the news that the Apple Watch will be able to view web content.
He writes:
If I had to guess, I’d imagine some sort of “reader mode” is coming to the Watch: in other words, when you open a link on your...
Collective #422
7.6.2018
G6 * Priority Nav Scroller * CORS * Sketch.systems * 10 Things I Regret About Node.js * Supercraft * The History of Connection
Collective #422 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Getting Started with Yoga and Prisma for Building GraphQL Servers
7.6.2018
By now, you have probably heard a lot of buzz about GraphQL going around and how it’s going to replace REST but you don’t even know where to begin. You hear a lot of buzzwords about mutations and
Manipulating Pixels Using Canvas
7.6.2018
Modern browsers support playing video via the <video> element. Most browsers also have access to webcams via the MediaDevices.getUserMedia() API. But even with those two things combined, we can’t really access and manipulate those pixels directly.
Fortunately, browsers have a Canvas...
Headless CMS: Fresh Air for Developers
7.6.2018
(This is a sponsored post.)
Your current CMS sucks! You know that for some time already but have not decided yet what your next solution should be.
You've noticed all the buzz around headless CMS but you're still not sure what is in it for you and how it can solve all your woes.
What is...
console.logTime
7.6.2018
I work on a really complex debugger at Mozilla but, and don’t tell my colleagues, I sometimes enjoy simply using console.log and other console commands to get some simple output. I know, I know, but hey — whatever gets the job done. A few years ago I detailed console.time...
console.timeLog
7.6.2018
I work on a really complex debugger at Mozilla but, and don’t tell my colleagues, I sometimes enjoy simply using console.log and other console commands to get some simple output. I know, I know, but hey — whatever gets the job done. A few years ago I detailed console.time...
The web can be anything we want it to be
6.6.2018
I really enjoyed this chat between Bruce Lawson and Mustafa Kurtuldu where they talked about browser support and the health of the web. Bruce expands upon a lot of the thoughts in a post he wrote last year called World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web where he writes:
...across the world...
Animate Images and Videos with curtains.js
6.6.2018
While browsing the latest award-winning websites, you may notice a lot of fancy image distortion animations or neat 3D effects. Most of them are created with WebGL, an API allowing GPU-accelerated image processing effects and animations. They also tend to use libraries built on top of WebGL such...
Debug JavaScript in Production with Source Maps
5.6.2018
These days, the code you use to write your application isn’t usually the same code that’s deployed in production and interpreted by browsers. Perhaps you’re writing your source code in a language t
How to Integrate MongoDB Atlas and Segment using MongoDB Stitch
5.6.2018
It can be quite difficult tying together multiple systems, APIs, and third-party services. Recently, we faced this exact problem in-house, when we wanted to get data from Segment into MongoDB so we
What’s Next for Hybrid App Developers? (Sponsored)
5.6.2018
The story of hybrid application development is a never-ending one. Each framework has to continuously strive and innovate to remain relevant, and the discussion of which framework to use is a question often asked. Most hybrid applications are built using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript....
15 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for June 2018
5.6.2018
This June's collection is packed with awesome free resources including some powerful CSS frameworks and JS tools