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Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Creating the Question Modal
17.6.2019
Create a folder named question-modal within the src/components directory and a file index.js within it. Open the file and update it with the snippet below:
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Create The Questions component
17.6.2019
Let’s create the Questions component, open the src/components/questions/index.js file and update the file with the following:
// src/componen
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Single Question Component
17.6.2019
Create a folder called question within the src/components directory and a file index.js within it. Open the file and copy the following into the file:
Grid, content re-ordering and accessibility
13.6.2019
Take this:
<ol>
<li>Get hungry</li>
<li>Order pizza</li>
<li>Eat pizza</li>
</ol>
That HTML ends up in the DOM that way (and thus how it is is exposed to assistive technology), and by default, those list items are also visually...
Few Women Are Contributing Code to Major Crypto Projects, Report Finds
12.6.2019
Study finds that female coders participated in only 5% of the top 100 blockchain projects
Less Than 5% of Crypto Code Commits on Github Made By Women: Report
12.6.2019
Less than 5% of the code committed to the top 100 cryptocurrency projects on Github were contributed by women
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...
Michael Ford Will Be The New Bitcoin Core Code Maintainer, Will Join The Four Other Existing Ones
11.6.2019
Michael Ford, the Bitcoin core contributor, has been named as the new maintainer of the open source software project. Ford, who is famous by his handle name ‘fanquake,’ will the fifth maintainer, who will join the existing four, namely, Wladimir van Der Laan, Jonas Schnelli, Marco...
Michael Ford Named Newest Bitcoin Core Code Maintainer
11.6.2019
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project
Level up your .sort game
10.6.2019
Sorting is a super handy JavaScript method that can display the values of an array in a certain order. Whether that’s real estate listings by price, burger joints by distance, or best nearby happy hours by rating, sorting arrays of information is a common need.
If you’re already doing this with...
Using DevTools to Improve the UX Design to Development Process
7.6.2019
I’d like to tell you how I see code and design intersect and support one another. Specifically, I want to cover how designers can use code in their everyday work. I suggest this not because it’s a required skill, but because even a baseline understanding of coding can make designs better and...
Ethereum Classic to Test Code for ‘Atlantis’ Upgrade This Month
7.6.2019
Ethereum classic developers discussed during a call today the possibility of speeding up mainnet activation of system-wide upgrade, Atlantis. In compromise, a slightly adjusted test network activation timeline for June 19 was collectively agreed upon
What if we got aspect-ratio sized images by doing almost nothing?
7.6.2019
Say you have an image you're using in an <img> that is 800x600 pixels. Will it actually display as 800px wide on your site? It's very likely that it will not. We tend to put images into flexible container elements, and the image inside is set to width: 100%;. So perhaps that image ends...
Snag Resources from An Event Apart Boston 2019 and Save on Washington D.C. Registration
6.6.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Hey, so we talked a little bit about An Event Apart Boston 2019 leading up to the event and now there are a ton of resources available from it. I stopped counting the number of links after 50 because there's way more than that. Seriously, there's stuff in there...
Closures and Currying in Javascript
6.6.2019
What are Closures?
If you write code in Javascript it's quite likely you have come across the term closure, which is a useful yet often confusing concept. But just what is a c
A Course About CSS Layout and Animations
6.6.2019
Christina Gorton just released a new course called CSS Layout and Animations as a part of Design+Code, which is a $9/month. That includes a ton of video training on everything from stuff like this to React to Sketch to iOS development... and beyond!
Christina approaches the course with my favorite...
New Browser Extension Enhances BCH Addresses for Easy Tipping
5.6.2019
Bitcoin cash is a great fit for tipping online creators as it offers extremely low fees which is needed for small payments with cryptocurrency to make sense. A new tool aims to make the tipping process easier, removing the need to manually copy and paste BCH addresses. Also Read: How to Use...
Lightning Network Pioneer Releases New Code for Bitcoin Scaling Concept
5.6.2019
Co-author of the lightning network white paper Tadge Dryja has released new code for a proposed scaling solution he's been working on for a year
Create a Custom useFetch() React Hook
5.6.2019
A custom hook is a JavaScript function with a unique naming convention that requires -
the function name to start with use and
the function may call other Hooks
Movin’ Modals Along a Path
4.6.2019
Modals always be just appearin'. You might see one once in a while that slides in from one of the edges, or uses some kind of scale/opacity thing to appear from "above" or "below." But we can get weirder than that. Why not have them come in on an offset-path?
Just a swoopy arc is kinda fun.
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