With React Storybook, you can develop and design UI components outside your app in an isolated environment. It will change how you develop UI components. Oh, it also plays nice with create-react-app. React Storybook →Introducing React Storybook →React Storybooks meets Create React App →
Is Houdini ready yet‽
“Is Houdini ready yet‽” is a dedicated page to tracking the status of Houdini. But what is Houdini? Here’s a snippet from Smashing Magazine: Imagine how much nicer your development life would be if you could use any CSS property and know for sure it was going to work, exactly the same, in every browser. …
Lost your iPhone? Be extra alert for upcoming identity theft attempts.
Joonas Kiminki got his iPhone stolen. Twelve days later, after immediately having marked it as lost in Find my iPhone, he got a text and email saying his iPhone was found with a link to see the phone’s location. I of course rushed to the address on the link and then started typing my credentials, …
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AOS – Animate on Scroll
AOS allows you to animate elements as you scroll down, and up. If you scroll back to top, elements will animate to it’s previous state and are ready to animate again if you scroll down. By setting data-aos-* attributes on your HTML elements, you can define which animation to use, what timing to use, etc. …
JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling
In a recent project I implemented Kinetic Scrolling (aka Momentum Scrolling, aka Inertia Scrolling). For this I based myself upon the set of demos and articles by Ariya Hidayat. The article series starts at basic drag-and-scrolling, and then continues to momentum scrolling, and so forth. Even though the content is over 3 years old, it …
Transform HTML Content to Apple News / Google AMP / Facebook Instant Articles with Distro
Automatically transform article HTML for third-party platforms such as Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Google AMP “Just” make a curl request … curl –data " <h1>Distro.Mic example</h1> <p>Text and media embed</p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7lc1UVf-VE\"></iframe> " https://distro.mic.com/1.0/format?output=apple-news … and the content is “translated” to the specified format: { "article": [{ "text": "Distro.Mic example", "additions": [], "inlineTextStyles": [], …
Creating a React app with create-react-app
Tyler McGinnis, after having been involved in quite a lot of tutorials/courses/workshops teaching on how to build a React app: Throughout all of these workshops, one thing was consistent: getting started with a React application was pretty overwhelming, for both beginners and senior developers alike. I can confirm this I must say. The tutorials and …
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CSS Only Scroll Indicator
There’s a pen embedded in this post. Visit this post on the Bram.us website, or see the Pen CSS only scroll indicator on CodePen. I was interested to see if I could make a scroll indicator with just CSS. You can! But maybe you shouldn’t. This is an interesting consequence of a bunch of hacks …