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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters
Just how much does TTFB matter when it comes to front-end performance?
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News
A lot has changed in version 4! At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support for React Hooks, including inspecting nested objects.
Libs & tools
Custom Properties (CSS variables) polyfill for IE11
This tool allows you to list any node_modules directories in your system, as well as the space they take up. You can then select which ones you want to erase to free up space. Yay!
An open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling.
Articles
The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s in or what’s happening on a web page.
How Victor optimizes SVGs for his blog and why you probably should, too.
A list of interesting and helpful applications of destructing assignments in JavaScript.
For beginners
This is a collection of React JS practical projects for Beginners, that will guide you through some fun. Along the way, you'll pick up lots of useful development tips.
Hello from the server side
Find how Microservices in Node.js work through examples!
Spec of the week
The insertAdjacentElement() method of the Element interface inserts a given element node at a given position relative to the element it is invoked upon.
Demo