A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Over at CSS-Tricks Hugh Haworth has done a nice write-up on the next generation of build tools that have been popping up. A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including …
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Over at CSS { In Real Life }, author Michelle Barker has detailed a clever way to style pseudo-elements (such as ::before and ::after) through JavaScript. In Javascript we have a few ways of selecting elements, but we can’t directly target pseudo-elements. […] Luckily, CSS custom properties can help. 👉 If you set a custom …
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Great talk by Zach Leatherman as recorded at Smashing Conf Austin 2020: The talk delves into Single Page Applications, Multi Page Applications, modern JavaScript Frameworks, and what I believe to be a better future for web development. /me nods along for the entirety of this talk. Powering his faux-live-coding slidedeck is Queue Code, a package …
Talk by Ben Deitmer, as recorded at the latest Front-end Forward Meetup: Traditionally most web animations are driven purely by javascript. The now widely supported Web Animations Api has potential to drastically decrease the javascript footprint and improve performance out of the box. Ben learns you how to implement this new api but also have …
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Jake Archibald: JavaScript’s this is the butt of many jokes, and that’s because, well, it’s pretty complicated. However, I’ve seen developers do much-more-complicated and domain-specific things to avoid dealing with this this. If you’re unsure about this, hopefully this will help. This is my this guide. JavaScript: What is the meaning of this? →
Leveraging the JavaScript YouTube Player API and with a good pinch of CSS on top, Thomas H. Park created this record player for you to play with. Drop the needle and find your favorite track, more or less. It’s fuzzy and inexact, and emphasizes the continuous listening experience an album can be. Clever usage of …
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Date in JavaScript with Intl.DateTimeFormat
Phil Nash walks us through using Intl.DateTimeFormat to format a Date to a specific timezone and format. const shortcutFormatter = Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-AU", { timeZone: "Australia/Melbourne", timeStyle: "long", dateStyle: "short" }); shortcutFormatter.format(date); // => "22/2/21, 5:05:52 pm AEDT" How to display dates in your user’s time zone with the Intl API → Related: Think you know a …
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Shipping in Chrome 89 are Import Maps, which allows control over what URLs get fetched when importing modules. Let’s take a look at this very welcome addition. When importing ES Modules (on the web), you need to refer to them using their full filenames or URLs: import moment from “/js/moment/moment.js”; import { partition } from …
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Jonathan Yeong tried out Snowpack and is equally excited as I am about it. Related: 🙋♂️ If you’re looking for a detailed step-by-step post on Snowpack, check out Learn Snowpack: A High-Performance Frontend Build Tool to get you started.
Nolan Lawson, on how we might focus too much on JavaScript bundle size: Performance is a multi-faceted thing. It would be great if we could reduce it down to a single metric such as bundle size, but if you really want to cover all the bases, there are a lot of different angles to consider. …
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