Creating a React Renderer will give you the opportunity to apply the same React knowledge that you and your team already know and enjoy from the web and native to whatever host environment you need.
Creating a renderer is a fairly straight-forward affair once you know what you’re looking for.
Houdini is a collection of APIs that expose the CSS engine’s internals to developers.
The Houdini task force consists of engineers from Mozilla, Apple, Opera, Microsoft, HP, Intel and Google. The task force is working on a collection of drafts with the goal to get them accepted by the W3C to become actual web standards.
NodeJS 6 has been shipped with 95% of the ES6 spec support. This event has finally graduated JavaScript from being a limited thing that need constant patching to an actually good and useable out of the box language. (hooray everyone!) So, we need to revisit ES6 generators and make them a widely accepted feature.
ECMAScript 6 (ES6) features can be divided into features that are pure syntactic sugar (like: class), features that enhance JavaScript (like import) and features that fix some of JS’s “bad” parts (like letkeyword). Most blogs and articles combine all 3 types and can overwhelm new comers.
There are two not insignificant problems with any application or library that makes use of _.chain: its most common use promotes importing the entirety of lodash to work, and it’s hard to extend with new methods.
The <table> element in HTML is used for displaying tabular data. You can think of it as a way to describe and display data that would make sense in spreadsheet software.
Node.js is growing up, and with that comes the responsibility of proper legacy support. As of Node.js Argon (v4.2.0) there is an official Long Term Support release cycle that lasts for 30 months!
A big chunk of the FullStory engineering team formerly worked at Google, where there is a famously strong emphasis on code quality. Perhaps the most important foundational tenet at the big G is a practice called code reviews, or, more precisely, “pre-commit” code reviews.
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