A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Now this is a step forward: gqless is a fundamentally new approach to a GraphQL client. It makes using your API enjoyable, by generating queries at runtime based upon the data your app consumes. Here’s an example app of it in action. Notice how the data it fetched automagically, depending on what is to be …
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Always notice how in sci-fi movies the computers make those weird bleepy sounds? Tom Hicks has created a JavaScript snippet that combines MutationObserver with AudioContext to recreate that effect. Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn’t do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches …
Small site by @mathias (who else?) on the Unicode support in browsers their JavaScript engines. Changes in the Unicode Standard can affect the JavaScript language. This page gives concrete examples and tracks which exact Unicode version each browser supports for each feature. What surprises me is that some engines support different Unicode versions per feature. …
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Over at the V8 blog, Marja Hölttä has published some posts on how to read the ECMAScript Specification: Even if you know JavaScript, reading its language specification, ECMAScript Language specification, or the ECMAScript spec for short, can be pretty daunting. At least that’s how I felt when I started reading it for the first time. …
Jennifer Williams shows us how use Redux with Hooks When I was first learning Redux I found all the moving parts and files incredibly hard to wrap my head around. Surprisingly, React hooks made the process of using Redux a lot easier for me. The post provides us with a two-fold example. One “without hooks” …
Tim Rodenbröker: After more than 7 months of experimentation, planning and creating i am finally abled to release a first Alpha-version of my brand new course “Creative Coding Essentials”. I have decided to open the first chunk of videos to the world, because i believe that the current Corona-crisis is a great oppurtunity to get …
Flip is an advanced and beautiful flip counter plugin. Easy to use and highly flexible, you can set up a custom counter on your website in minutes. Display visitor counts, countdown to a special date or celebrate progress. Whatever you’re planning, the options are endless. Here’s a counter example <div class="tick" data-value="1234" data-did-init="setupFlip"> <div data-repeat="true" …
To work with forms in React two approaches are to either use Controlled Components or use Uncontrolled Components (as detailed here). Swyx shares a third way of working with forms: A lower friction way to handle form inputs is to use HTML name attributes. As a bonus, your code often turns out less React specific! …
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“Worth It: Modern JS edition” is a small tool to analyze how much less JavaScript is downloaded in modern browsers as a result of it using the module/nomodule pattern. Worth It: Modern JS edition → 💡 The module/nomodule pattern is a technique to ship ES2015 modules to browsers that support, whilst also keeping older browsers …
twitter-text-js
If you ever have to work with Tweets, then twitter-text-js will surely come in handy: A JavaScript utility that provides text processing routines for Tweets. The library provides autolinking and extraction for URLs, usernames, lists, and hashtags. The following snippet for example will autolink the hashtag and the mentioned username: twitter.autoLink(twitter.htmlEscape('#hello < @world >')) Installation …
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