React Native CLI 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 – What’s New?

Mike Grabowski on the recent changes in React Native CLI: In this short article, I want to give you an overview of what’s new and what’s coming up in React Native CLI. Also, I’ll tell how do we plan our work going forward on it. The fact that React Native now shares the build cache …

Use the Bootstrap 3 Glyphicons with Bootstrap 4

Bootstrap 4 no longer bundles (a subset of) glyphicons. Instead, Bootstrap recommends to buy the full set or use a different set of icons. However, if you want to quickly copy-and-paste some stuff over from a legacy Bootstrap 3 project, the easiest of getting the old icons is through loading bootstrap4-glyphicons. It’s a project that …

Redux in 30 lines of PHP

To get the full details behind Redux, Sorin Nunca has recreated it using PHP: As I usually try to understand the tools I’m using, the following tries to be a toy implementation of Redux in PHP, in the hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of the concepts behind Redux. Also covers combineReducers. Redux in 30 …

The Hooks of React Router

If you’re looking to get started with React Router – or looking to migrate away from version 4 – this article on CSS-Tricks will introduce to it and its hooks: React Router 5 embraces the power of hooks and has introduced four different hooks to help with routing. You will find this article useful if …

The CSS Cascade – Or, How browsers resolve competing CSS styles

Amelia Wattenberger is at it again with this nice interactive page on the CSS Cascade Every time we write a CSS declaration (or rule), it will enter the CSS Cascade, which will determine whether or not it will end up as the final style. The further down the cascade a declaration falls, the less likely …

React Native + SwiftUI

Kureev Alexey on how to use SwiftUI Components in an React Native App. Today, we’ll write a proxy that allows developers to use SwiftUI in their React Native applications. The Native SwiftUI Button Component looks like this: struct SwiftUIButton : View { @ObservedObject var props = ButtonProps() var body: some View { VStack { Text("Count …

Google Cloud Build + Google Cloud Run: Fixing “ERROR: (gcloud.run.deploy) PERMISSION_DENIED: The caller does not have permission

Google Cloud Build is cool. Google Cloud Run is awesome. But when configuring Google Cloud Build to automatically deploy your built container to Google Cloud Run you might see this error: ERROR: (gcloud.run.deploy) PERMISSION_DENIED: The caller does not have permission If you’re seeing this error you forgot to set up the required IAM Permissions for …

Delete untagged image refs in Google Container Registry, as a service, with gcr-cleaner

GCR Cleaner deletes untagged images in Google Container Registry. This can help reduce costs and keep your container images list in order. GCR Cleaner is designed to be deployed as a Cloud Run service and invoked periodically via Cloud Scheduler. Clever! All commands to install this one are provided. gcr-cleaner →

Today, the Trident Era Ends

IE6 vs. the Acid2 test. It was only until IE8 that it passed Acid2. When “Edgium” got released about a month ago, Schepp also wrote an extensive piece to commemorate the Trident rendering engine. Back in the days, Microsoft was single-handedly pushing the web forward, with around 1.000(!) people working on Internet Explorer and with …