Why We Didn’t Use A Framework

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Why We Didn’t Use A Framework

Find out why the team at MeetSpace decided to build their app without a front-end framework, and what the pros and cons of a frameworkless back end are.

In the news

npm v5.0.0

This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes they've been hoping to do for literally years.

Tools & libraries

postcss-normalize

Use the parts of normalize.css you need from your browserlist

nif

node --inspect a file and open devtool url in chrome via chrome-cli.

Tutorials & guides

4 CSS Filters For Adjusting Color

CSS filters offer an easy way to make color adjustments to an image or element and they do so in a completely non-destructive way.

Enforcing CSS Syntax Style (and more!)

I bet you have a style that you write CSS in, for the most part. You like 4-spaces, say. You always have a space after braces and colons.

Stuff at the Top of an SVG

At the beginning of an SVG file, the code often contains declarations and attributes like DOCTYPE, xml, xmlns, xlink, and version. Here’s when they are useful for graphics on an HTML5 webpage.

For beginners

Event Bubbling in JavaScript? Event Propagation Explained

Giulio Mainardi looks at event propagation in JavaScript. He examines event bubbling & capture and shows how they fit into the basic JavaScript event flow.

Blogs

You might not need to transpile your JavaScript

Popular movements like YouMightNotNeedJQuery.com and You Don’t Need Lodash/Underscore have challenged common industry practices.
This post is not as wild as, say, YouMightNotNeedJS.com, but it does elaborate on transpilation, and explains why it may not be as necessary in the near future.

Rebuilding Slack’s Emoji Picker in React

Slack is transitioning its web client to React. When Slack was first built, their frontend consisted of established technologies like jQuery and Handlebars. Since then, the community has developed better ways to create scalable, data-driven interfaces.

The Problem with `npm install --global`

Many modern JavaScript development tools are distributed through NPM and tell you to install them globally. For some packages it is okay to install them globally, but other packages are creating a future headache for you...