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Build a Decentralized Web Chat in 15 Minutes
25.3.2019
In this 15 minute tutorial we’re going to build a simple decentralized chat application which runs entirely in a web browser. All you will need is a text editor, a web browser, and a basic knowledge of how to save HTML files and open them in the browser. We’re going...
React Starter: Getting Started with React (2019 Edition)
18.3.2019
React is the uber popular JavaScript library that is almost everywhere you look these days. Learning React opens up a whole new way to build front-end experiences like websites, mobile apps, and mo
Web Standards Meet User-Land: Using CSS-in-JS to Style Custom Elements
15.3.2019
The popularity of CSS-in-JS has mostly come from the React community, and indeed many CSS-in-JS libraries are React-specific. However, Emotion, the most popular library in terms of npm downloads, is framework agnostic.
Using the shadow DOM is common when creating custom elements, but there’s...
The Benefits of Structuring CSS Around Appearance and Layout
13.3.2019
I like this point that Jonathan Snook made on Twitter and I’ve been thinking about it non-stop because it describes something that’s really hard about writing CSS:
I feel like that tweet sounds either very shallow or very deep depending on how you look at it but in reality, I don't think...
Social Cards as a Service
19.2.2019
I love the idea of programmatically generated images. That power is close at hand these days for us front-end developers, thanks to the concept of headless browsers. Take Puppeteer, the library for controlling headless Chrome. Generating images from URLs is their default use case:
const puppeteer...
Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js
6.2.2019
Some text distortion experiments using the Blotter.js library. The idea is to distort text as we scroll or move the mouse.
Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Testing React and Redux Apps with Jest
5.2.2019
React is a popular library for building user interfaces created by Facebook. Redux on the other hand is a wonderful s
Testing React and Redux Apps with Jest
5.2.2019
React is a popular library for building user interfaces created by Facebook. Redux on the other hand is a wonderful s
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: A Gentle Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures
23.1.2019
In a library, there are various kinds of books on a very wide range of topics. There are books on Agriculture, Science, Arts, Politics, Nature, Software Engineering (as i must especially mention… ????
STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows
18.1.2019
Product teams from AirBnb and New York Times to Shopify and Artsy (among many others) are converging on a new set of best practices and technologies for building the web apps that their businesses depend on. This trend reflects core principles and solve underlying problems that we may share, so...
Making Movies With amCharts
16.1.2019
In this article, I want to show off the flexibility and real power of amCharts 4. We’re going to learn how to combine multiple charts that run together with animations that form a movie experience. Even if you’re only interested in creating a different kind of animation that has nothing to do with...
Piecing Together Approaches for a CSS Masonry Layout
11.1.2019
Masonry layout, on the web, is when items of an uneven size are laid out such that there aren't uneven gaps. I would guess the term was coined (or at least popularized) for the web by David DeSandro because of his popular Masonry JavaScript library, which has been around since 2010.
JavaScript...
Animated Mesh Lines
8.1.2019
A set of five demos with animated WebGL lines created with the THREE.MeshLine library. Find out how to animate and build these lines to create your own animations.
Animated Mesh Lines was written by Jérémie Boulay and published on Codrops
Animating Between Views in React
21.12.2018
You know how some sites and web apps have that neat native feel when transitioning between two pages or views? Sarah Drasner has shown some good examples and even a Vue library to boot.
These animations are the type of features that can turn a good user experience into a great one. But to achieve...
Making SVG icon libraries for React apps
14.12.2018
Nicolas Gallagher:
At Twitter I used the approach described here to publish the company’s SVG icon library in several different formats: optimized SVGs, plain JavaScript modules, React DOM components, and React Native components.
There is no One True Way© to make an SVG icon system. The only...
Ambient Canvas Backgrounds
13.12.2018
Five ambient webpage backgrounds created using the HTML5 Canvas API and jwagner's Simplex Noise library.
Ambient Canvas Backgrounds was written by Sean Free and published on Codrops
What makes someone a good front-end developer?
11.12.2018
We recently covered this exact same thing, but from the perspective of a bunch of developers.
Chris Ferdinandi weighs in:
The least important skills for a front-end developer to have are technical ones.
The nuances of JavaScript. How to use a particular library, framework, or build tool. How...
Script & Style Show: Episode 26: Web Games with ExcaliburJS with Erik Onarheim and Kamran Ayub
18.11.2018
In this episode: Todd returns from a vacation to Disney and gives David some tips about surviving a family visit to Orlando’s most famous theme parks. Erik Onarheim and Kamran Ayub join the guys to discuss HTML5 games, the Excalibur JavaScript HTML5 game library, the amazing games made with...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for November 2018
8.11.2018
This November's collection is packed with some powerful CSS frameworks, awesome date and time library and JS tools
How to make a modern dashboard with NVD3.js
19.7.2018
NVD3.js is a JavaScript visualization library that is free to use and open source. It’s derived from the well-known d3.js visualization library. When used the right way, this library can be extremely powerful for everyday tasks and even business operations.
For example, an online dashboard. We...