A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “The CSS Cascade – Or, How browsers resolve competing CSS styles”
PHP8 is not released yet (and won’t be until the end of the year), but that doesn’t keep Brent from tracking the RFCs/Proposals and constantly updating this page whenever a new PHP Language Feature is (about to be) approved. In this post I’ll keep an up-to-date list of what’s expected to come: new features, performance …
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 …
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 →
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 …
A video-version of How tracking pixels work by Vox: In this video, we explain how cookies work and what you should know about how they’re being used. And we get a little help from the man who invented them. Spot on “Finding Dory” analogy. One thing where they do go off a bit is that …
Chrome 80 recently got released, with some nice new features. To me the highlights are: Support for Optional Chaining SVG favicons, which also support prefers-color-scheme BTW New in Chrome 80 → 💁♂️ Also on my list of highlights is Linking to text fragments using a special URL fragment in the form of :~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]. It’s a …
Valeri Karpov on how JSX is transformed into JavaScript: The JSX compiler parses all the element types, props, and children, and passes each of the nodes in the tree through a pragma. The pragma is just a fancy term for the function that JSX calls on each node. In the case of React, React.createElement is …
Continue reading “An Overview of JSX With 3 Non-React Examples”
Chris White, on creating really fast HTTP requests in PHP, by manually building an HTTP request and sending a payload: Hand-crafting HTTP requests seemed like an unreliable method at first, but after some pretty extensive testing I can vouch for it reliably sending the requests and the remote server receiving them in full. It can …