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Your Brain on Front-End Development
13.6.2018
Part of the job of being a front-end developer is applying different techniques and technologies to pull of the desired UI and UX. Perhaps you work with a design team and implement their designs. I know when I look at a design (heck, even if I know I'm not going to be building it), my front-end...
A Quick Roundup of Recent React Chatter
12.6.2018
Like many, many others, I'm in the pool of leveling up my JavaScript skills and learning how to put React to use. That's why Brad Frost resonated with me when he posted My Struggle to Learn React."
As Brad does, he clearly outlines his struggles point-by-point:
I have invested enough time...
Češi rozbíhají Coworkbooking.com, cílí na digitální nomády po celém světě
12.6.2018
Trojice Čechů Jiří Opletal, Marek Tůma a Jan Dohnal v pondělí spustila portál Coworkbooking.com – globální platformu pro rezervaci pracovních míst v coworkingových prostorách. Má propojovat digitální nomády, coworkingová centra a firmy z více než 800 měst po celém světě. Uživatel si jednoduše...
console.logTime
7.6.2018
I work on a really complex debugger at Mozilla but, and don’t tell my colleagues, I sometimes enjoy simply using console.log and other console commands to get some simple output. I know, I know, but hey — whatever gets the job done. A few years ago I detailed console.time...
console.timeLog
7.6.2018
I work on a really complex debugger at Mozilla but, and don’t tell my colleagues, I sometimes enjoy simply using console.log and other console commands to get some simple output. I know, I know, but hey — whatever gets the job done. A few years ago I detailed console.time...
Developing a design environment
28.5.2018
Jules Forrest discusses some of the work that her team at Credit Karma has been up to when it comes to design systems. Jules writes:
...in most engineering organizations, you spend your whole first day setting up your development environment so you can actually ship code. It’s generally pretty...
Solving Life’s Problems with CSS
28.5.2018
Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.
Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, "Yeah, representing the tech field!" in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp feeling of panic.
Like many people who work on UIs for a living, I have difficulty applying...
Service Worker Cookbook
25.5.2018
I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has it all.
You can also check out our guide to making...
Just a Couple’a Fun Typography Links
22.5.2018
Marcin Wichary made an incredible demo exploring "segmented type" as in, the kind you might see on a display like a microwave, but scaling up in complexity from there.
"Datalegreya is a typeface which can interweave data curves with text."
Airbnb commissions their own new font, Cereal (complete...
Unicode Patterns
18.5.2018
These Unicode patterns by Yuan Chuan are extraordinarily clever. It's a <css-doodle> custom web component that sets up a CSS grid and randomizes what character to drop into a cell and things, like color.
See all their gorgeous work on CodePen and the very cool <css-doodle> website...
How React Reconciliation Works
17.5.2018
React is fast! Some of that speed comes from updating only the parts of the DOM that need it. Less for you to worry about and a speed gain to boot. As long as you understand the workings of setState(), you should be good to go. However, it’s also important to familiarize yourself with how this...
Free Introduction to Web Development Workshop
15.5.2018
Brian Holt and the Frontend Masters team are putting on a free workshop today and tomorrow that is live-streamed for anyone that's interested. This is super cool because, despite the fact that there is a mountain of articles about web development out there, there are only few that start with...
Get a React Component by DOM Node
15.5.2018
Retrieving a React component’s DOM node is fairly simple from within the component itself, but what if you want to work backward: retrieve a component’s instance by DOM node? This is a task that the old Dojo Toolkit’s Dijit framework allowed with the dojo.byId method, so it made...
Microsites for Case Studies
7.5.2018
A lot of y'all have personal sites. Personal sites with portfolios. Or you work for or own an agency where showing off the work you do is arguably even more important. Often the portfolio area of a site is the most fretted and hard to pull off. Do you link to the live projects? Screenshots?...
CSS Environment Variables
4.5.2018
We were all introduced to the env() function in CSS when all that drama about "The Notch" and the iPhone X was going down. The way that Apple landed on helping us move content away from those "unsafe" areas was to provide us essentially hard-coded variables to use:
padding:
...
CSS Blocks
27.4.2018
A new entry into the CSS-in-JS landscape! Looks like the idea is that you write an individual CSS file for every component. You have to work in components, that's how the whole thing works. In the same isle as styled-components, css-modules, and glamorous.
Then you write :scope { } which is...
Reset File Changes with git
25.4.2018
There are many different philosophies when it comes to code review but mine is fairly simple: I like receiving early “work in progress” patches, I like to be positive in my code review messages, and if a patch is 90% there, I like to finish the patch myself so the project...
Grid to Flex
24.4.2018
Una Kravets shows how to make layouts in CSS Grid with flexbox fallbacks for browsers that don’t support those grid properties just yet. Una writes:
CSS grid is AMAZING! However, if you need to support users of IE11 and below, or Edge 15 and below, grid won't really work as you expect...This site...
What are Higher-Order Components in React?
19.4.2018
If you have been in the React ecosystem for a while, there is a possibility that you have heard about Higher Order Components. Let’s look at a simple implementation while also trying to explain the core idea. From here you should get a good idea of how they work and even put them to use.
Why...
Script & Style Show: Episode 5: Q&A
1.4.2018
On this week’s episode: Todd’s back from vacation while David’s knee-deep in a Firefox Debugger breakpoint UI update. We eventually move on to viewer questions that range form JavaScript knowledge, the Array.flatten controversy, front-end testing (TDD vs. BDD), and mastering...