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The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Where Do I Belong
6.3.2019
It never feels good to be lost and unable to find your way home, or so out of place and unable to fit in. Don’t get confused, this isn’t some dark and twisted literature about some scared lady lost
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Falsy Bouncer
4.3.2019
Falsy bouncer? Just in case your mind's been pacing frantically trying to make sense of the title of this challenge, worry not! We’ll do that together.
A bouncer is a person em
Typography for Developers
27.2.2019
This is intended as a practical guide for developers to learn web typography. We’ll cover a range of practical and useful topics, like how to choose and use custom fonts on the web, but more importantly, how to lay text out to create a pleasant user experience. We’ll go over the principles...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Pig Latin
26.2.2019
“Pig Latin is a constructed language game in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the initial consonant or consonant cluster of a
CSS Variables + calc() + rgb() = Enforcing High Contrast Colors
21.2.2019
As you may know, the recent updates and additions to CSS are extremely powerful. From Flexbox to Grid, and — what we’re concerned about here — Custom Properties (aka CSS variables), all of which make robust and dynamic layouts and interfaces easier than ever while opening up many other...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Combining Arrays Without Duplicates
19.2.2019
Combining Arrays Without Duplicates
When developing software, we often need to combine data efficiently and without repetition. This often comes up when manipulating listed data with the use Arrays
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Array Chunking
19.2.2019
This article marks the beginning of our array manipulation algorithms. In this article, we explore different techniques to chunk (split) an array into smaller units.
Array chunking is a tech
IE10-Compatible Grid Auto-Placement with Flexbox
18.2.2019
If you work on web applications that support older browsers, and have lusted after CSS Grid from the sidelines like I have, I have some good news: I've discovered a clever CSS-only way to use grid auto-placement in IE10+!
Now, it's not actually CSS Grid, but without looking at the code itself,...
A Site for Front-End Development Conferences (Built with 11ty on Netlify)
12.2.2019
I built a new little site! It's a site for listing upcoming conferences in the world of front-end web design and development. In years past (like 2017), Sarah Drasner took up this daunting job. We used a form for new conference submissions, but it was still a rather manual task of basically...
Quick! What’s the Difference Between Flexbox and Grid?
12.2.2019
Let's go rapid fire and try to answer this question with quick points rather than long explanations. There are a lot of similarities between flexbox and grid, starting with the fact that they are used for layout and much more powerful than any layout technique that came before them. They...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Anagrams
12.2.2019
Hooray! This article marks the last string manipulation challenge in this section of this course. We've come a long way!
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Search and Replace
8.2.2019
The "Search and Replace" functionality is very common within word processing applications used for creating notes, documents and things of that nature. In this challenge, we implem
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Finding the Longest Word In a Sentence
7.2.2019
Finding the longest word in a string of text is a very common algorithmic challenge in the JavaScript world. In this article we examine three ways to solve this challenge, with each method showcasi
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Hamming Distance
5.2.2019
In this challenge we will come up with an algorithm to calculate the edit distance between two strings of equal length, also known as Hamming Distance.
What is hamming dist
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Palindromes
4.2.2019
In this challenge we further strengthen our string manipulation skills by implementing simple algorithms to test if a string of text is a palindrome.
What is a palindrome?
Collective #487
28.1.2019
Webauthn.Guide * The "Bug-O" Notation * Terminal CSS * Destructuring * CloudQuery * Exclusive Design * Palettte App
Collective #487 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Sentence Capitalization
28.1.2019
Sentence Capitalization
Often times, situations arise in which we need to manipulate the letter casing of stings within our applications usually for presentational purposes. JavaScript off
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Finding the Most Recurring Character
23.1.2019
In this challenge, we will be dealing with strings, arrays and objects. We will learn to manipulate these data types using various methods that'd bring us to a working solution in the end.
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The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Counting the Vowels in a String of Text
23.1.2019
In this challenge, we will be working with strings and arrays. Strings and arrays are very much alike in that they are both collections of elements usually of the same type.
In order to mani
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: String Reversal
23.1.2019
The string reversal algorithm is perhaps the most common JavaScript code challenge on the internet. In this article, we explore various string reversal techniques as a good number of string manipul