A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
No new features, but a lot of changes, paving the way for future releases. The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-facing features. Instead, this release is primarily focused on making it easier to upgrade React itself. We’re actively working on the new React features, but they’re not a part …
closest() Method to Capture a “Click outside” an Element
In Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method, Andreas Remdt talks about some nice use cases that use Element.closest(). I especially like this example with a menu. Click on one of the links and it will show the menu which has the class menu-dropdown. Clicking outside said menu will close it. It’s that latter one …
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Sara Vieira (@NikkitaFTW) published her book “The Opinionated Guide to React”. It’s 190 pages of React Recipes and Code Examples. This book is my personal map of the tips, power-ups and not-so-obvious solutions to common questions and problems that I’ve come across during 4 years of React development. I have been finding some of the …
httpstat visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity. It is a single file🌟 Python script that has no dependency👏 and is compatible with Python 3🍻. Installation through PiP or HomeBrew: pip install httpstat brew install httpstat Once installed through one of those, you can directly call httpstat: httpstat https://www.bram.us/ httpstat – curl …
Great talk by Stéphanie Walter (starting at 39:00): With practical examples, I show why certain animations work better than others and how to find the best timing and duration to build UI animations that “feel right”. I explain how our brain works, why and how animations contribute to improving user experience. And what you need …
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Sanjeet Chatterjee built this nice demo where your smartphone can act as a virtual pointer for a webpage. With a fundamental shift to the web, we are able to do really cool things right from our browser. In this tutorial, we will be utilising the Generic Sensor API to turn your smartphone into a pointer …
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While working with CCTV cameras in a project, I was reminded of this short film from 2007:
Axios has a great API that developers love. Redaxios provides that API in 800 bytes, using native fetch(). For those searching for ways to shave a few kilobytes off of their bundles, that’s less than 1/5th of the size. This is made possible by using the browser’s native Fetch API, which is supported in all …
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content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
Coming to Chromium 85 is content-visibility (part of Display Locking): content-visibility enables the user agent to skip an element’s rendering work, including layout and painting, until it is needed. Because rendering is skipped, if a large portion of your content is off-screen, leveraging the content-visibility property makes the initial user load much faster. It also …
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If you’re using React Hot Loader, it’s time to start looking at React Refresh Webpack Plugin, an EXPERIMENTAL Webpack plugin to enable “Fast Refresh” (which you might know from React Native) for React components. It’s also to be included with Create React App version 4.0 (now in alpha). Installation per NPM/Yarn: npm install -D @pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin …