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Scrolling on the web: A primer
Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport?
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Many developers struggle with installing and configuring React Native’s current native build dependencies, especially for Android. With Create React Native App, there’s no need to use Xcode or Android Studio, and you can develop for your iOS device using Linux or Windows.
Tools & libraries
UnCSS is a tool that removes unused CSS from your stylesheets. It works across multiple files and supports Javascript-injected CSS.
blurify.js is a tiny library to blurred pictures, support graceful downgrade from css mode to canvas mode.
Application structure visualization. Component inspection. Time travel. Identify changed components and what changed due to another component's update.
Tutorials & guides
We've all been there. You've got an element you want to be able to collapse and expand smoothly using CSS transitions, but its expanded size needs to be content-dependent.
Jurgen van de Moere takes an existing Angular 2+ app and refactors it into a more modular component architecture, making use of reusable "dumb" components.
For beginners
There are some rules for writing clean CSS that you should try your best to avoid breaking. They’ll help you write CSS that is lightweight and reusable. Let’s look at these one by one.
Blogs
While npm has done a fantastic job creating a large and vibrant JavaScript ecosystem, Yarn is an important addition to the Node.js ecosystem, and it will improve your Node.js development experience.
This article is not a tutorial per se but a list of takeaways, pros and cons of each library and the impact on an existing React application.
React-Native is a hybrid mobile framework that lets you build apps using only JavaScript. However, unlike other hybrid mobile technologies you are not building a “mobile Web App” (Web App wrapped in a native container). In the end, you get the real thing.
Hello from the server side
Streams are a little understood interface used in almost every internal module of Node.js and across thousands of NPM packages.
This post takes a look at what streams are and do, while providing some examples along the way.
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