OreillyCover Twitter Bot

In succession to those hilarious The Practical Developer Book Covers, the Twitter bot @OreillyCover has been created by @GNUmanth. It allows you to roll your own book covers by just tweeting at it. Feed the bot tweets using the following format: @OreillyCover /orly {title};{topText};{author} Tweeting @OreillyCover /orly Hanging out on Slack;Being unproductive without feeling guilty …

Setting up React for ES6 ES2015 with Webpack and Babel

This resource came in quite handy when setting up React in combination with ES6 ES2015, Webpack and Babel. Installing all the required dependencies: # Install Webpack npm install –save-dev webpack # Install the Babel Loader, for use with Webpack npm install –save-dev babel-loader # Install the es2015 and react presets, for use with Babel npm …

ReactiveElements: Convert React.js components into Web Components

Create your component as you normally would, and then register it on the document using document.registerReact(…) /* @jsx React.DOM */ MyComponent = React.createClass({ render: function() { console.log(this.props.items); // passed as HTML tag`s argument console.log(this.props.children); // original tag children return <ul><li>React content</li></ul>; } }); document.registerReact('my-react-component', MyComponent); You can then use it as follows: <body> <my-react-component items="{window.someArray}"></my-react-component> …

What does it cost to host Unsplash?

Take a quick guess: What do you think it costs to host one of the largest photography sites in the world for a month? $1,000? $10,000? $50,000? Before starting Unsplash, I would have had no idea. No one talks about this stuff and I’m not really sure why. Let’s change that. Great, transparent, insight on …

A Complete Guide to CSS Grid Layout

Great cheat sheet / guide by Chris House, on Grid Layout — a CSS spec that has gotten me really excited ever since it has been announced (over two years ago): My intention with this guide is to present the Grid concepts as they exist in the very latest version of the specification. So I …

ES6 ES2015 in Depth

There’s a good set of articles on ES6 ES2015 over at Pony Foo: Promises, Arrow Functions, Template Literals, Classes, Modules, Array Extensions, Destructuring, Iterators, Maps, Proxies, … it’s all covered. The post ES6 ES2015 Overview in 350 Bullet Points is a nice summary of ‘m all. Pony Foo: Articles tagged es6-in-depth →