A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
useHooks(🐠) – Easy to understand React Hook recipes
Hooks are an upcoming feature that lets you use state and other React features without writing a class. This websites provides easy to understand code examples to help you understand how hooks work and hopefully inspire you to take advantage of them in your next project. useHooks(🐠) → 💁♂️ Not familiar with Hooks? The announcement …
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If you’re looking to get started with React, then the (massive) React Handbook will come in handy. The React Handbook follows the 80/20 rule: learn in 20% of the time the 80% of a topic. Best part of it all is that it starts with a big section on Modern JavaScript (e.g. ES2015 and newer) …
Creating is easy. Shipping is the hard part, and countless companies never quite figure it out. Sure, they might release their software, but that’s not the same as shipping. No company is perfect, but it makes a big difference when they genuinely care. Shipping is about consistency. It’s regularly updated help documents. It’s responsive and …
Good writeup by Freek on how to get PHP-CS-Fixer and Prettier up and running. When working on a project with other people, it’s important to pick a coding standard. Agreeing on a coding standard makes the code more readable for all developers that need to touch the project. It’s easy to make mistakes against those …
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Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield helps debunk (and confirm!) some common myths about space. Is there any sound in space? Does space smell like burnt steak? Is NASA working on warp speed?
Ire Aderinokun on why you should use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector (e.g. [lang]) for language-specific styles: The problem with having language-specific styles based on the [lang] attribute selector is that the selector isn’t actually aware of the language of the element. It’s just like any other “dumb” attribute selector. This can …
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Good piece by Hidde on the markup one needs to use when linking to a translation of a page. The other day I worked on some front-end code that takes users to a version of the website in a different language. Two attributes can make such links more accessible: lang and hreflang. What’s the difference? …
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Friend Thomas Byttebier – Digital Director at Base Design – has written a very insightful post on the sameness of apps, websites, subway maps, and coffee shops. Why do all apps look the same nowadays? Why do all websites look the same? What can brands do to create more memorable digital experiences? And also: how …
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Don’t fiddle too much with your forms‘ look and feel. A small innocent-looking piece of CSS, even when combined with semantically correct HTML, could leave you with a degraded User Experience and make your forms less Accessible.
React Native Gesture Handler is a declarative API exposing platform native touch and gesture system to React Native. React Native Gesture Handler provides native-driven gesture management APIs for building best possible touch-based experiences in React Native. With this library gestures are no longer controlled by the JS responder system, but instead are recognized and tracked …