Category Archives: Elsewhere
The Layouts of Tomorrow
With CSS Grid being available, Max Böck set out to find himself a layout challenge: I went over to dribbble in search of layout ideas that are pushing the envelope a bit. The kind of design that would make frontend … Continue reading
React Native at Airbnb
Gabriel Peal, Android developer at Airbnb: In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next. The result is a 5-part series of posts: … Continue reading
How Apple can fix 3D Touch
Eliz Kılıç writes down something that’s been bothering me too: Apple introduced 3D Touch and its new related interactions Peek and Pop in 2014. It’s been almost 4 years since its first introduction, yet people don’t know/use 3D Touch. Why … Continue reading
Animate CSS Grid Layouts with animate-css-grid
In a new(ish) web-project I’m working on, I went all-in on CSS Grid. The website contains a page where one can filter the list of elements shown. To animate this filtering I used animate-css-grid, as other libraries typically used for … Continue reading
Switching PHP versions with Laravel Valet
For some older projects that I still need to run, I recently started using Valet. As those projects sometimes require different versions of PHP – or when I want to test them with the latest PHP version – I followed … Continue reading
Siema – Lightweight and simple carousel with no dependencies
Siema is a lightweight (only 3kb gzipped) carousel plugin with no dependencies and no styling.It is 100% open source and available on Github. It is free to use on personal and commercial projects. Use it with your favourite module bundler … Continue reading
Sticky Events – Events for position: sticky;
Sticky Events is a library that can listen for events on elements that have position: sticky; applied. It’s an abstraction built on top of the IntersectionObserver, and provides one with three types of events: StickyEvent.CHANGE: Fired when an element becomes … Continue reading
Responsive UIs in React Native
On the web it is – by now – obvious that you make your website responsive (*). Using a listener listening to the change event of the Dimensions API, it’s also possible to implement this kind of behaviour in React … Continue reading
Dynamic Bézier Curves
Nice writeup by Josh Comeau on how he created the on-scroll-animated bézier curve on his website Did you notice that as you started scrolling on this page, the Bézier curves that border the green title hero thingy started flattening? Keep … Continue reading
How to display a “new version available” for a Progressive Web App
Dean Hume: I’ve built a number of Progressive Web Apps that simply update the service worker silently for the user in the background, but I really like the approach where you get a popup notification that suggests that there is … Continue reading