A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Great explanation by Umar Hansa on the upcoming Log Management UI in the Chrome DevTools: The new Log Management UI is an experimental feature in Canary DevTools. Once enabled, you can create console.log functions which have their own context. One can create new logging contexts using console.context(name): const thirdPartyLogger = console.context(‘3rd Party’); const infoLogger = …
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Ken Wheeler, who also created the aforementioned webpack-dashboard, has now created an Electron based version: The original webpack-dashboard, was fun and people seemed to like it. Unless they were on Windows, or used a weird terminal set up, or if they just wanted more. The original dashboard felt like working at NASA. 50 years ago. …
Alexis Mangin: I have recently worked on the first version of a React-Native mobile app for one of my clients, which desired to architecture the app in a scalable way for a painless experience to add new features later. I believe we should always think about app architecture that way as it can always scale …
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With the Intersection Observer coming to Firefox, a nice article covering it appeared on Mozilla Hacks. The IntersectionObserver interface of the Intersection Observer API provides a way to asynchronously observe changes in the intersection of a target element with an ancestor element or with a top-level document’s viewport. To use it, create a new instance …
The folks over at The New York Times have made change to using React, Relay and GraphQL for the new version of their website (which they are rolling out over the coming months): We thought it would be nice if there was one place to add and retrieve data and one way to authenticate against …
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The first beta React 16 has been released just yesterday. Next to it running on Fiber (speeeed!), and allowing one to return Arrays in the render() method (bye bye unnecessary wrapper divs!), it also introduces the concept of Error Boundaries: Error boundaries are React components that catch JavaScript errors anywhere in their child component tree, …
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Amazing: gpu.js is a JavaScript library for GPGPU (General purpose computing on GPUs) in the browser. gpu.js will automatically compile specially written JavaScript functions into shader language and run them on the GPU using the WebGL API. In case WebGL is not available, the functions will still run in regular JavaScript. Only a subset of …
Great writeup by Benjamin De Cock on the work he and his colleagues did to creating unique landing pages that tell a story for our major products For this release, we designed Connect’s landing page to reflect its intricate, cutting-edge capabilities while keeping things light and simple on the surface. In this blog post, we’ll …
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Hive, a UK based technology design studio, have shared their set of best practices for developing JavaScript-based projects. While developing a new project is like rolling on a green field for you, maintaining it is a potential dark twisted nightmare for someone else. Here’s a list of guidelines we’ve found, written and gathered that (we …
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UPDATE 2017.09.13: Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today also provides a good writeup on this subject. Good workflow fleshed out by Sam Thorogood on using ES2015/ES6 modules with browsers that support, whilst also keeping older browsers (that don’t support it) happy. The modules Let’s take these 2 simple modules for example: // main.js import {x} …