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: Part 1: React Native at Airbnb Part 2: The Technology Part 3: Building a Cross-Platform …
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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 would they? Even tech-savvy users don’t know which buttons offer 3D touch. Let alone regular …
Rearrange / 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 this – e.g. Isotope – don’t play nice with CSS Grid. Installation per NPM/Yarn: yarn …
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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 or by manually injecting the script into your project. I especially like the fact that …
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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 stuck or unstuck StickyEvent.STUCK: Fired only when an element becomes stuck StickyEvent.UNSTUCK: Fired only when …
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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 Native. import {Component} from "react"; import {Dimensions} from "react-native"; export default class LogDimensionChanges extends Component …
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 your eye on the swoopy curves just above the post text as you scroll through …
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 a new version of the site available like Google’s Inbox provides – especially for an …
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10x Performance Increases: Optimizing a Static Site
Use case by JonLuca De Caro in which he optimised the page load speed of a static site. Before optimisation the site weighed 1MB (at 20 requests) with DOMContentLoaded at 3.74s. After optimisation the site weighed only 267kB (at 9 requests) with DOMContentLoaded at 197ms. 10x Performance Increases: Optimizing a Static Site →
Resilient, Declarative, Contextual
I enjoyed reading this piece by Keith J. Grant on three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages. I want to look at three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages: it’s resilient; it’s declarative; and it’s contextual. Understanding these aspects of the language, I …