I haven’t checked out Vue myself yet (more into React 😉), but this five-part series by Sarah Drasner seems like a very solid start … Rendering, Directives, and Events Components, Props, and Slots Vue-cli and Lifecycle Hooks Vuex Animations Learning Vue – CSS-Tricks →
react-datasheet, an Excel-like Datagrid Component for React
A simple react component to create a spreadsheet: Select cells, copy-paste cells Navigation using keyboard keys Deletion using keyboard keys Callbacks for onChange, valueRenderer(visible data) dataRenderer(underlying data in the input, takes the value by default) Installation per npm, of course: npm install react-datasheet –save Cells can have both a value and an expression (the underlying …
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Exploring interdependencies in global resource trade
The volume of natural resources traded globally has increased over 60% since the turn of the century, reflecting and reinforcing new economic and geopolitical realities and bringing new environmental and social challenges – as well as opportunities. Now everyone can explore these fast-evolving dynamics through Chatham House’s comprehensive and accessible data and insights into resource …
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Aspect Ratios in CSS are a Hack
UPDATE 2020.11.30: Aspect Ratios in CSS are no longer a hack, thanks to the new aspect-ratio CSS property! Right now I’m in Amsterdam attending CSS Day (my fourth time already!). Earlier this morning Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie – yes, the inventors of CSS – were on stage reflecting on the first days of …
Nicer CSS underlines with text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; (previously text-decoration-skip: ink;)
When applying text-decoration: underline; on an element, the line drawn will cross descenders. Using text-decoration-skip one can control the behavior of the underline The text-decoration-skip CSS property specifies what parts of the element’s content any text decoration affecting the element must skip over. It controls all text decoration lines drawn by the element and also …
Zttp, a developer friendly wrapper for Guzzle
If you’re not familiar with the evolution of Guzzle, the library has basically gotten more professional and less usable with each new version. New layers upon layers of specification-respecting abstractions and rules made Guzzle incredibly difficult to get started with. Zttp solves just that, by keeping things simple: Zttp is a simple Guzzle wrapper designed …
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Inclusive Design Principles
These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It’s about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really. They are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites and applications – designers, user experience professionals, developers, product owners, idea makers, …
CSS Shapes, Clipping and Masking
The release of Firefox 54 is just around the corner and it will introduce new features into an already cool CSS property: clip-path. clip-path is a property that allows us to clip (i.e., cut away) parts of an element. Up until now, in Firefox you could only use an SVG to clip an element: But …
Safari Auto-Play Policy Changes for macOS
The Safari team: Safari in macOS High Sierra uses an automatic inference engine to block media elements with sound from auto-playing by default on most websites. Safari 11 also gives users control over which websites are allowed to auto-play video and audio by opening Safari’s new “Websites” preferences pane, or through the “Settings for This …
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Polluted Water Popsicles
What if one were to create water popsicles from sewage water? Art students Hung I-chen, Guo Yi-hui, and Cheng Yu-ti from the National Taiwan University of the Arts did just so: The group collected polluted water from 100 locations in Taiwan, first freezing the collected sewage samples and then preserving their creations in polyester resin. …