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‘Tackling Real World Issues’: Hackers at ETH New York Build Apps Geared Towards Social Change
19.5.2019
A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact
Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture, Anti-Tracking in Browsers
17.5.2019
In this week's news: resolving an issue when restarting progressive web apps in iOS, why The Telegraph now vets all scripts before they make it to their codebase, and Microsoft plans to add tracking prevention to the Edge browser.
The post Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture...
React Starter: Using Create React App to Make React Applications
15.5.2019
Usually when you create a React application, you’ll be creating a single page app (SPA). In order to make setting up single page apps easier, a CLI tool called
Emberfund Turns Your Phone Into a Crypto Hedge Fund
14.5.2019
Emberfund is a new mobile app that lets anyone buy into an index of cryptocurrencies that automatically balances itself over time
Nym Technologies Raises $2.5 Million to Anonymize Crypto Apps
13.5.2019
This startup is betting tokens can help incentivize privacy infrastructure across the internet
Learn How to Create BCH Apps With Bitcoin.com’s Developer Platform
13.5.2019
Are you a professional or a hobbyist programmer and want to create cryptocurrency enabled applications? Bitcoin.com’s Developer Platform offers resources for you to learn how to develop software based on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. Also Read: Crypto Meets Techno and Binance Security...
Currently Reading: Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grisby
3.5.2019
I’ve been reading Jason Grigsby’s new book on progressive web apps this past week and it’s exciting. Jason explains what PWAs are and how they work while while doing a bang-up job covering the business case for using them them, too. But perhaps you might be thinking that a PWA isn’t necessary...
Flow Object.values(…)
2.5.2019
JavaScript typing utilities, like Flow and TypeScript, have become popular in JavaScript apps of all sizes. As I mentioned in our Script & Style Show typing podcast, typing is a great way to implicitly implement documentation and validation. Flow isn’t always easy to perfect, however,...
How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store
19.4.2019
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature...
Remove Recent Applications from Dock
19.4.2019
A Mac user’s dock is a sacred place. We customize our dock to no end, and if you’re ultra organized like me, you even use dock separators to group your app icons. Apple recently implemented a feature which displays three recently used apps in the dock. For basic users that’s...
Under-Engineered Toggles
10.4.2019
Toggles. Switches. Whatever you want to call them, they've been with us for some time and have been a dominant a staple for many form interfaces. They're even baked right into many CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Foundation.
It's easy to think of them in binary terms: on and off. Off...
Firebase: Get Your Apps Off the Ground Blazing Fast
9.4.2019
Google has invested heavily to make Firebase a full-featured application platform for web. It's dirt cheap to use. It's reliable. It saves up to 50% of yo
Responsible JavaScript
3.4.2019
We just made a note about this article by Jeremy Wagner in our newsletter but it’s so good that I think it’s worth linking to again as Jeremy writes about how our obsession with JavaScript can lead to accessibility and performance issues:
What we tend to forget is that the environment websites...
Better Than Native
27.3.2019
Andy Bell wrote up his thoughts about the whole web versus native app debate which I think is super interesting. It was hard to make it through the post because I was nodding so aggressively as I read:
The whole idea of competing with native apps seems pretty daft to me, too. The web gives us...
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
Build Light-Weight REST and Realtime Apps with FeathersJS
13.3.2019
In the barest of definitions, Feathers is a simple minimalistic realtime framework for web applications built over Express. What this means is that with Feathers, you can keep using middlewares but
Add Animations to React Apps with React-Lottie
13.3.2019
So your designer just came up with an amazing new animation on Adobe After Effects for your web application, fantastic! Just one problem, how do you convert this to a format usable within your web
Application Holotypes
13.3.2019
It's entirely too common to make broad-sweeping statements about all websites. Jason Miller:
We often make generalizations about applications we see in the wild, both anecdotal and statistical: "Single-Page Applications are slower than multipage" or "apps with low TTI loaded fast". However,...
3 Tools to Keep npm Packages Updated
12.3.2019
Keeping npm packages up to date is a chore. Sometimes it can turn into a disastrous chore since updating packages to a new major number could potentially break your apps.
Even with the
Accessibility is not a “React Problem”
11.3.2019
Leslie Cohn-Wein's main point:
While [lots of divs, inline styles, focus management problems] are valid concerns, it should be noted that nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps.
True. I'm quite capable (and sadly, guilty) of building inaccessible interfaces with React...