Release Radar
We’ve seen some amazing community projects this last month. This was a huge month for your community with hundreds of new releases. There’s everything from world-changing tech to weekend hobbies.…
Getting Started With Webpack — Smashing Magazine
Modern browsers provide good support for JavaScript modules, but module bundlers such as webpack stay a critical part of the JavaScript toolchain. Module bundlers such as webpack, Parcel, Rollup and also Google’s Closure Compiler were written to create optimized bundles of your code for your end-user’s browser to download and execute. In this article, Nwani Victory will take a deep dive into what
Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. For most of June Syria is having planned Internet shutdowns during critical exam periods.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 is now generally available for all customers. It helps customers work with large, busy repositories, while enabling developers to develop and deploy with less effort than…
Static vs Unit vs Integration vs E2E Testing for Frontend Apps
What these mean, why they matter, and why they don't
The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications
How to interpret the testing trophy for optimal clarity
Updating Illustrations at Scale - Shopify
@shopify/get-repo-images is an open source solution that makes it easily find illustrations and their references in code across multiple repositories.
How a Jenkins Job Broke our Jenkins UI
Artwork courtesy of the Jenkins project. At Slack we manage a sophisticated Jenkins infrastructure to continuously build and test our mobile apps before release. We have hundreds of jobs running in a variety of different environments. One day something very odd happened — our Jenkins UI stopped working although the jobs continued to run. This…
Managing Shared State In Vue 3 — Smashing Magazine
Writing large-scale Vue applications can be a challenge. Using shared state in your Vue 3 applications can be a solution to reducing this complexity. There are a number common solutions to solving state. In this article, I will dive into the pros and cons of approaches like factories, shared objects, and using Vuex. I’ll also show you what is coming in Vuex 5 that might change how we all use share
A Crash Course in WordPress Block Filters
Blocks in WordPress are great. Drop some into the page, arrange them how you like, and you’ve got a pretty sweet landing page with little effort. But what if
On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing
There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2021
In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
Kinda a big announcement
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more “Kinda a big announcement”
You can now buy print version of my zines!
You can now buy print version of my zines!
How Facebook deals with PCIe faults to keep our data centers running reliably
Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) hardware continues to push the boundaries of computing thanks to advances in transfer speeds, the number of available lanes for simultaneous data delivery, and a comparatively small footprint on motherboards. Today, PCIe connectivity-based hardware delivers faster data transfers and is one of the de facto methods to connect components to […] Read Mo
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How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues — Smashing Magazine
Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has taken the SEO and Web Performance worlds by storm and many sites are busy optimizing their Page Experience to maximize the ranking factor. The Cumulative Layout Shift metric is causing trouble to a lot of sites, so let’s have a look at ways of addressing any issues for that metric.
Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Getting a good performance score from Google is hard for any website — but doing so for an online store is even harder. We achieved green scores — even several for mobile. Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, Jennifer Brehm is going to highlight some of the work she did and how her team was able to achieve thei
Front-End Testing is For Everyone
Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell
Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You
Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore. I know what it means. It means to put only the CSS required to
Embracing the mess at Config 2021
Watch all of the videos from Config 2021
Github Social Impact: How we’re driving change with social sector organizations
We’re proud to share the new and improved Social Impact at GitHub website, and we’re really excited to share what our team has been working on! GitHub’s mission is to…
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Smashing Podcast Episode 38 With Ivan Akulov: Why Is My React App Slow? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about React performance. What factors slow our React apps down, and how can we fix it? Drew McLellan talks to expert Ivan Akulov to find out.
