A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Covered here before are Records and Tuples, two Immutable Datastructures most likely coming to JavaScript. Sebastien Lorber takes a look at how these will improve React. A whole category of React bugs are related to unstable object identities: Performance: can trigger re-renders that could be avoided Behavior: can trigger useless effect re-executions, and lead to …
useQueryParams – A React Hook for managing state in URL query parameters
Once you’ve set up a QueryParamProvider high up your component tree, you can start using useQueryParam to get (and set) querystring parameters import * as React from 'react'; import { useQueryParam, NumberParam, StringParam } from 'use-query-params'; const UseQueryParamExample = () => { // something like: ?x=123&foo=bar in the URL const [num, setNum] = useQueryParam('x', NumberParam); …
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George Cave takes a look at the UX of the LEGO Interface Panels These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces. The UX of LEGO Interface …
Small and lightweight, I like: import tinykeys from "tinykeys" tinykeys(window, { "Shift+D": () => { alert("The 'Shift' and 'd' keys were pressed at the same time") }, "y e e t": () => { alert("The keys 'y', 'e', 'e', and 't' were pressed in order") }, "$mod+KeyD": () => { alert("Either 'Control+d' or 'Meta+d' were …
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An ECMAScript Language Feature that I’m looking forward to is Declarations in Conditionals. It adds the capability to declare variables inside conditional statements. Let’s take a look … ~ Setting the Scene Say you want to iterate over an array which might be tucked away inside an object. To do so, you’d most likely first …
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loading-attribute-eagle-polyfill
Today, Rick Viscomi noted that some sites have set eagle – instead of eager – as the value for Native Image Lazy-Loading: Native image lazy loading landed months ago in Chrome 76. You can set img[loading] to auto, lazy, or eager. According to @HTTPArchive, 34 websites are setting it to loading="eagle" 🤔 There's a Lord …
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display: grid; and object-fit: cover;
On the Full Stack Belgium Slack channel, user @Brammm recently asked how to create a simple image gallery. Anyone have a favorite way of making an image grid with CSS? I’d like one of those “fancy” ones where no matter the aspect ratio of the image, they all have the same gap between them. While …
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type conflict: int != float
In a Flux query I was writing I wanted to negate the fetched values using a map function to multiply each value by -1: map(fn: (r) => ({ _value: r._value * -1 })) To my surprise this yielded an error: type conflict: int != float Took me a few Google Search Coupons to realize the …
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