Enabling experimental Developer Tools Experiments

Using chrome://flags/ it’s possible to enable “Developer Tools Experiments”. On the most recent Fronteers Conference, Umar Hansa showed that there are even more DevTools Experiments that one can enable: Enable “Developer Tools Experiments” via chrome://flags/ if you haven’t already In the DevTools, go to Settings and select Experiments Hit SHIFT 6 times After having done …

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Artsy Engineering Blog: React Native, 2 years later

Two years ago the folks at Artsy started working with React Native: We’ve come quite far from where we started, and I was asked if I could give a talk to summerize what we’ve learned in the last 2 years as a set of native developers using React Native. Orta Therox from their team gave …

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Emoji Compositions — Create your own emoji by combining existing ones (👱‍♂️ + 🎩 + 🔎 = …)

Last Friday Max Lynch sent out this tweet: I'm still not over Apple killing the best emoji there ever was pic.twitter.com/gVOMhEP3Mn — Max Lynch (@maxlynch) March 15, 2018 Inspired by an idea that first came to my mind after seeing these emoji compositions using the 😎 emoji, I quickly replied that it’d be perfectly possible …

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React Native Under the Hood: MessageQueue & JS Thread

Yesterday I spent all day on the React Native Bridge digging deep into what gets sent over. This talk by Rotem Mizrachi-Meidan nicely details why one would want to do that. Next to the basic MessageQueue.spy(), I also used the aforementioned rn-snoopy to get some aggregated stats. A write-up of this video is also available.

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CSS Houdini Experiments

At the very end of the Say Hello to Houdini and the CSS Paint API article there’s only a small mention of this site. However it’s that great that it’s worth a link/post on its own. ⚠️ Be sure to use Chrome Canary – with “Experimental Web Platform features” enabled via chrome://flags – when visiting …

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Unstated  —  The setState of React State Management

Unstated is designed to build on top of the patterns already set out by React components and (the new) Context. Unstated is built upon three pieces that all work together: Container <Subscribe> <Provider> The idea is that the Container only keeps itself busy with the state. Using <Subscribe> you can link that state to your …

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