A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Valeri Karpov on how JSX is transformed into JavaScript: The JSX compiler parses all the element types, props, and children, and passes each of the nodes in the tree through a pragma. The pragma is just a fancy term for the function that JSX calls on each node. In the case of React, React.createElement is …
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useEffect(fn, []) is not the new componentDidMount()
Brad Westfall from React Training on why the React hook useEffect(fn, []) is not the same as componentDidMount(): When developers start learning hooks having come from classes, they tend to think “I need to run some code once when we mount, like how componentDidMount() works. Ah, I see that useEffect with an empty dependency array …
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Nice demo/explainer by Louis Hoebregts on how to generate a pattern of Connected Vertices using p5.js 💁♂️ Use the included slider to advance the steps.
Hugo Giraudel, engineer at N26: In the last few years, we have seen more and more ways to build highly interactive web applications relying almost exclusively on JavaScript. To the point where we almost wonder whether we forgot from where we come from. Not so long ago was a time was JavaScript was just sprinkled …
deno.town – A web REPL for experimenting with the Deno API
deno.town is a REPL to play with the aforementioned Deno, a new take on Node as if it were designed today. deno.town → ⁉️ If you’re looking for a shorter intro to Deno, this talk by Bert Belder at DotJS has got you covered:
In this article, we will focus on the security side of the framework. We will be dividing the article into the following sections: Securing app to server connection Securing local data Advanced integrity checks Securing React Native Applications →
Mark Steadman from Deque: React can be an accessible application framework with the right knowledge and the right know-how. The stigma that it is not an accessible framework is simply not true. It has some of the best built-in accessibility functionality there is out there, and a large community of accessibility advocates that are creating …
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Matthew Gerstman explaining a lot of terms that evolve around JavaScript: ECMA, TC39, Babel, Polyfills, … So you Google how to make your app work in IE 10, or 11, or whatever. You’re quickly flooded with acronyms and terms you’ve never heard before ES5, ES6, ESNext, ES2020, TC39, ECMA. What’s a transpiler? People are debating …
Straight to the point video by Ryan Lanciaux on how to use React with the aforementioned Snowpack: Thanks Ryan, saved me some research! Snowpack with React: An awesome way to build web applications →
Talk by Alex Holachek, as brought forward at React Conf 2019: As the technology to create Progressive Web Apps continues to mature, React developers have the opportunity to write web apps that in some cases can rival native ones in terms of speed and convenience. However, one barrier to feature parity is the difficulty of …
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