What Hooks Mean for Vue
4.2.2019
Not to be confused with Lifecycle Hooks, Hooks were introduced in React in v16.7.0-alpha, and a proof of concept was released for Vue a few days after. Even though it was proposed by React, it’s actually an important composition mechanism that has benefits across JavaScript framework ecosystems,...
More Like position: tricky;
4.2.2019
I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it's not used that much...
Implementing an Infinite Scroll list in React Native
4.2.2019
While implementing pagination in mobile devices, one has to take a different approach since space is minimal unlike the web, due to this factor, infinite scrolling has always been the go to solutio
Code Challenge #15: Simple Crazy Buttons with VanillaJS
4.2.2019
Woohoo! This is the first of our live stream code challenge series, and we'll kick it off with completing a super satisfying and rather funny challenge using HTML, CSS and plain Vanilla JavaScript
CSS :placeholder-shown
4.2.2019
One of the first plugins that would hit a new framework in the early days of JavaScript frameworks was a placeholder plugin, which is why we were so excited when HTML5 brought us the placeholder attribute. Then CSS lovers like me were thrilled when the CSS spec allowed us to style placeholders....
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1
4.2.2019
The first edition of a new series that aims to showcase inspirational website designs.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
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?
React’s Experimental Suspense API Will Rock for Fallback UI During Data Fetches
2.2.2019
Most web applications built today receive data from an API. When fetching that data, we have to take certain situations into consideration where the data might not have been received. Perhaps it was a lost connection. Maybe it was the endpoint was changed. Who knows. Whatever the issue, it's...
Well, Typetura seems fun
1.2.2019
I came across this update from Scott Kellum's and Sal Hernandez's project Typetura via my Medium feed this morning, and what a delight?!
(Also, wow, I really have been out of the game for a minute.)
Typetura.js is a fluid design solution, for any property, based on any input. It’s not for just...
How do you figure?
1.2.2019
Scott O'Hara digs into the <figure> and <figcaption> elements. Gotta love a good ol' HTML deep dive.
I use these on just about every blog post here on CSS-Tricks, and as I've suspected, I've basically been doing it wrong forever. My original thinking was that a figcaption was just...
Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Alt Text on Images
1.2.2019
Web developers and content editors alike often forget or ignore one of the most important parts of making a website accessible and SEO performant: image alt text. You know, that seemingly small image attribute that describes an image:
<img src="/cute/sloth/image.jpg" alt="A brown baby sloth...
WDRL — Edition 256: Safari 12.1, Chrome 72, PHP 7 performance, Sourcemaps in production and Maintaining large JavaScript codebases.
1.2.2019
Hey,
We need to act now to save our human living. It doesn’t matter that others don’t care, we as individuals need to make sure that we do everything we can to prevent our climate to go over into high-fever state (which is about 10 years away). It upon us to show companies that they need to...