A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification – the 8th edition of the spec – was officially released at the end of June by TC39. 💁♂️ ICYWW: Should we say ES2017 or ES8? → Say ES2017. Back in the day ES6 was (and still is) used a lot to refer to ES2015, but one should be referring …
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For the recent UK Elections the folks The Guardian wanted to show big images along with their push notifications. Being bandwidth-aware they wanted a solution in which they could use a template image (which could then be cached) and then draw some stuff onto it. Only problem: Service Workers don’t have access to the Canvas …
npx: an NPM package runnerIncluded with [email protected] is an extra binary named npx: npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the NPM registry — the same way npm makes it super easy to install and manage dependencies hosted on the registry, npx makes it easy to use CLI tools and other executables hosted …
LogRocket is a front-end logging tool that lets you replay problems as if they happened in your own browser. Instead of guessing why errors happen, or asking users for screenshots and log dumps, LogRocket lets you replay the session to quickly understand what went wrong. It works perfectly with any app, regardless of framework, and …
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Sean Larkin, one of the maintainers of Webpack, has started a video series to working with Webpack. The first course, entitled “The Core Concepts” is available for free: One of the biggest mysteries about webpack is how it works. As one of the maintainers of webpack, Sean Larkin is going to take you down a …
This short guide is intended to catch you up with the most important reasoning, terms, tools, and approaches to JavaScript testing. It combines many great recently written articles about some aspects discussed here and adds a little more from our experience. That first sentence is a lie though, nothing “short” about this grand overview ;). …
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An extensive 5-part tutorial by the Apollo folks, using their own Apollo Client to communicate with the GraphQL Server: Despite the great advantages of using GraphQL [over REST], the first step can be a bit daunting. That’s why I’ve started writing a series of tutorials that take you step by step through building a full-stack …
Swip.jsWhat if all your mobile devices were a single screen? This probably isn’t the most common question to ask yourself. But, just for a second, actually think about it. Think about all the possibilities of being able to combine any kind of mobile device, independent of its operating system. That’s what Swip.js does. Place two …
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