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Adding Particle Effects to DOM Elements with Canvas
23.7.2018
Let’s take a look at how to make web pages more visually capable by combining the freedom of <canvas> with HTML elements. Specifically, we will be creating a basic HTML-to-particle effect, but the same technique could be used for many kinds of effects.
Before we begin, feel free to grab...
CSS: A New Kind of JavaScript
19.7.2018
In this wacky and satirical post, Heydon Pickering describes a wild new technology called Cascading Style Sheets that solves a lot of the problems you might bump into when styling things with JavaScript:
A good sign that a technology is not fit for purpose is how much we have to rely on workarounds...
The div that looks different in every browser
13.7.2018
It's not that Martijn Cuppens used User Agent sniffing, CSS hacks, or anything like that to make this quirk div. This is just a plain ol' <div> using the outline property a la:
div {
inset 100px green;
outline-offset: -125px;
}
It looks different in different browsers because browsers...
Fast, Good, Local Site Search with Jetpack
12.7.2018
If you have, say, 20 posts/pages on your WordPress site, the search functionality that is baked right into your self-hosted WordPress site will probably do a great job. Search is a pretty cool feature to ship with WordPress, truth be told. But as a site grows, you'll find limits. How it works...
Emojis as Icons
11.7.2018
There are lots of unicode symbols that make pretty good icons already, like arrows (←), marks (✘), and objects (✂︎).You can already colorize these like a normal font glyph. Then, there are emojis, those full-color suckers we all know about. What if you could take just the shape of an emoji...
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...
Random Day in the Life of a Developer
11.7.2018
Yesterday, I started going through my email as soon as I got to work. I always start my day with email. I kinda like email. I read some interesting things in keeping up with the industry. I deal with some business things. I handle with some personal things. I make a note of the most important stuff...
Code Challenge #12: JavaScript String Manipulation
10.7.2018
Last time on the Code Challenge #11 we solved problems in JavaScript using functions to manipulate objec
itty.bitty
9.7.2018
Mark this down as one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a good long while. Nicholas Jitkoff has made a tool called itty.bitty that creates websites with all of the assets being contained within their own link. You can create a website without any HTML or CSS resources at all because it’s...
Little Tip: Draw Your Grid in ASCII in Your CSS Comments for Quick Reference
9.7.2018
Say you declared a grid like this:
body {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: min-content 1fr;
grid-template-rows: min-content auto min-content;
}
This depends on content, for sure, but how it's likely to play out is like this:
+---+-------------+
| | |
|...
12 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Web Developers
7.7.2018
Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular source code editors for web developers. It was released in 2015 by Microsoft and offers many awesome features you can...
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CSS Grid in IE: Faking an Auto-Placement Grid with Gaps
6.7.2018
This is the third and final part in a three-part series about using CSS grid safely in Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) without going insane.
In Part 1, I covered some of the common misconceptions that people have about IE11’s native CSS grid implementation. In Part 2, I showed the world how easy...
CSS Grid in IE: Debunking Common IE Grid Misconceptions
2.7.2018
This is the first in a three-part series all about how to use CSS grid in a way that will work not only in modern browsers but also in Internet Explorer (IE). Imagine writing CSS grid code without having to write a fallback layout! Many of us think that this is some far off future that is many...
8 Best Atom Packages for Web Developers
1.7.2018
Atom is one of the most popular and feature-rich source code editors for web developers. Originally, Atom was GitHub’s internal tool. Later, they decided to open-source it for the...
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Fitting Text to a Container
29.6.2018
There are a number of ways to go about putting some text in a container and having it size itself to fill that container. There are different technologies we can use and different considerations to think about. Let us count the ways.
Magic Number it with viewport units
If you set type with...
How to create a logo that responds to its own aspect ratio
28.6.2018
One of the cool things about <svg> is that it's literally its own document, so @media queries in CSS inside the SVG are based on its viewport rather than the HTML document that likely contains it.
This unique feature has let people play around for years. Tim Kadlec experimented with...
Vue + TypeScript: A Match Made in Your Code Editor
27.6.2018
Vue is so hot right now and I’ve been thinking of doing a serious project with it since quite a while, so when the opportunity popped up, I hopped in. But there was a little problem — one of the requirements of the project was to write it in TypeScript. At first, I was super stressed about...
React Node Flow
27.6.2018
Flow, the static type checker used in many React projects, feels like a gift and a curse at times; a gift in that it identifies weaknesses in your code, and a curse that sometimes you feel like you’re needlessly adjusting your code to satisfy Flow. I’ve grown to appreciate Flow...
Better rendering for variable fonts
26.6.2018
I was messing around with a variable font the other day and noticed this weird rendering issue in the latest version of Chrome where certain parts of letterforms were clipping into each other in a really weird way. Thankfully, though, Stephen Nixon has come to the rescue with a temporary hack...
How to use Error Boundaries in React 16
26.6.2018
Have you seen these in your console?
Cannot read property ‘getHostNode’ of null ????
TypeError: Cannot re