A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
render PropMichael Jackson on stepping away from HOCs, and using a render Prop instead. instead of “mixing in” or decorating a component to share behavior, just render a regular component with a function prop that it can use to share some state with you. He start with this HOC: import React from 'react' import ReactDOM from …
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New package by the folks from Spatie: We recently released our newest package called macroable. It contains a trait that, when applied to class, can dynamically add methods to that class. This trait is basically a stand alone version of the macroable trait in Laravel. It works by leveraging the __call() magic function, and checking …
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Stencil is a compiler that generates Web Components (more specifically, Custom Elements). Stencil combines the best concepts of the most popular frameworks into a simple build-time tool. Stencil takes features such as Virtual DOM Async rendering (inspired by React Fiber) Reactive data-binding TypeScript JSX and then generates standards-based Web Components with these features baked in. …
Earlier this week React 16 got released … yay! 🎉 To explain all the new features, Nik Graf has posted a short series on React 16 over at Egghead. The videos are free to watch and only take up 17 minutes of your time. Next to things like Fiber, Error Boundaries, and Returning arrays from …
Color me impressed: MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII map renderer for your console. There’s a live version accessible via telnet on mapscii.me: $ telnet mapscii.me Panning and zooming using the mouse is supported. At the base is a vector tileset (from OpenMapTiles), with a Node app on top (written in CoffeeScript) sporting an ASCII …
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Clever way, unearthed by Inti de Ceukelaire, to getting access to private communications channels (such as Slack) by leveraging the create-by-email feature of issue trackers/the helpdesk of a company. First target of Init was Gitlab’s Slack channel: Anyone with a valid @gitlab.com e-mail address can join their Slack team. At the same time, GitLab offers …
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The folks at Hashrocket have a nice introductory writeup on getting started with the aforementioned React VR. So if you’ve been doing React or React Native for the past months, you’ll see that React VR is super simple to get started and will let you build exciting 360 experiences. Starting from the default React VR …
The Web Animations Api (short WAAPI) tries to combine the power of CSS with the flexibility of Javascript in order to allow complex animation sequences. There are big differences between the WAAPI and for example libraries like GSAP, the biggest one being that the WAAPI is going to provide native browser support without needing to …
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