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Creating Your Own Gravity and Space Simulator
25.1.2019
Space is vast. Space is awesome. Space is difficult to understand — or so people tend to think. But in this tutorial I am going to show you that this is not the case. Quite the contrary; the laws that govern the motion of the stars, planets, asteroids and even entire galaxies are incredibly simple....
WDRL — Edition 255: CSS Grid Flex-Columns, Lost Screen Time, Wait and UX Personalization.
25.1.2019
Hey,
The only constant in life is change, they say. And it’s true even if we think nothing changes in life. It’s all only how you perceive things, how you observe things and whether you notice the change or not. In tech, it’s easy, just read a newsletter like this one and see how much changes...
Putting the Flexbox Albatross to Real Use
24.1.2019
If you hadn't seen it, Heydon posted a rather clever flexbox layout pattern that, in a sense, mimics what you could do with a container query by forcing an element to stack at a certain container width. I was particularly interested, as I was fighting a little layout situation at the time I...
Collective #486
24.1.2019
What Parallax Lacks * Fullstack GraphQL bootcamp * Table Design Patterns On The Web * console.chat * Flexbox.ninja
Collective #486 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Using React and XState to Build a Sign In Form
24.1.2019
To make a sign in form with good UX requires UI state management, meaning we’d like to minimize the cognitive load to complete it and reduce the number of required user actions while making an intuitive experience. Think about it: even a relatively simple email and password sign in form needs...
Use monday.com to Boost Project Organization and Team Collaboration
24.1.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Front-end development relies on organization and solid communication. Whether you're part of a team that builds large-scale sites or you're flying solo with a handful of quality clients, there are many pieces and steps to get a project from start to finish. And that's...
Layer Motion Slideshow
24.1.2019
A CSS Grid-based slideshow template with a layer motion effect on the main image and title.
Layer Motion Slideshow was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Successful WordPress Freelancing
23.1.2019
Andy Adams released a book for aspiring WordPress freelancers. It's meant to take a lot of the guesswork and the roadblocks that many folks often hit when making the decision to fly solo and rely on WordPress development for a stable source of work and income.
Aside from being included in it (and...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for January 2019
23.1.2019
Our first web dev resources collection for 2019 comes packed with awesome JS libraries, cool productivity tools, and lots of design freebies
React 16.6.0 Goodies
23.1.2019
React 16.6.0 was released October 2018 and with it came goodies that spice up the way we can develop with React. We’re going to cover what I consider the best of those new goodies with examples of how we can put them to use in our work.
React.memo() avoids unnecessary re-rendering
There...
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: Structure and Setup
23.1.2019
It's about time for us to dive into the core content of this course. I can tell you’re fired up already! To help you follow along better, let us now examine the course structure as well as set up o
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… ????
Would You Watch a Documentary Walking Through Codebases?
22.1.2019
This resonated pretty strongly with people:
I’d watch a documentary series of developers giving a tour of their codebases.
— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 6, 2019
I think I was watching some random Netflix documentary and daydreaming that the subject was actually something I was super...
Netlify Makes Deployments a Cinch
22.1.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Let's say you were going to design the easiest way to deploy a static site you can possibly imagine. If I was tasked with that, I'd say, well, it would deploy whenever I push to my master branch, and I'd tell it what command to run to build my site. Or maybe it has...
Getting Started with Nest.js
22.1.2019
If you have ever worked on a Node.js application before, either built a REST API or an enterprise application, you must have realised how tedious and daunting it was to maintain, especially wheneve
Announcing Scotch.io Coding Challenges! Weekly Code Tests and Twitch Live Streams!
22.1.2019
Code Challenges are an awesome way to improve your knowledge of web development, build interesting stuff and have fun at the same time.
The Scotch Code Challenges are weekly, short and fun challeng
The Secret Weapon to Learning CSS
22.1.2019
For some reason, I’ve lately been thinking a lot about what it takes to break into the web design industry and learn CSS. I reckon it has something to do with Keith Grant’s post earlier this month on a CSS mental model where he talks about a “common core for CSS”:
We need common core tricks like...
Who is @horse_js?
22.1.2019
Many of us follow @horse_js on Twitter. Twenty-one thousand of us, to be exact. That horse loves stirring up mischief by taking people's statements out of context. It happened to me a few times and almost got me in trouble.
I wonder how many people hate CSS because their experience with...