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Engineering — A Monthly Update With New Guides And Community Resources — Smashing Magazine

A Monthly Update With New Guides And Community Resources — Smashing Magazine

It’s time for another monthly update! The best way to get better together is by learning from each other, and what better way is there than to promote new ideas and the way forward for the web industry. A quick peek at our ever-growing guides will show you that we’re dedicated in bringing together a variety of topics that will help us all explore and learn new things. Join us as we share the lates

ILIris LjesnjaninIris Ljesnjanin·October 16, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Supercharge Testing React Applications With Wallaby.js — Smashing Magazine

Supercharge Testing React Applications With Wallaby.js — Smashing Magazine

Ever had to switch your focus from your editor and to your terminal to see the results of your tests? This article will introduce you to Wallaby.js — a JavaScript productivity tool that supercharges your IDE by allowing you to get real-time feedback on your JavaScript tests in your code editor even before saving the file. You will also learn how to use Wallaby.js for testing React applications. No

KOKelvin OmereshoneKelvin Omereshone·October 16, 2020Frontend
Engineering — Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn

Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn

It’s time for Major League Hacking’s (MLH) annual Local Hack Day: Learn, a worldwide celebration of learning. Do you have a framework that you have wanted to try? Or perhaps…

EHElise HollowedElise Hollowed·October 15, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle

Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle

This article originally appeared in TechCrunch, and is republished here with permission. The Supreme Court heard arguments October 7 in Google v. Oracle. This case raises a fundamental question for…

MLMike LinksvayerMike Linksvayer·October 15, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Managing Long-Running Tasks In A React App With Web Workers — Smashing Magazine

Managing Long-Running Tasks In A React App With Web Workers — Smashing Magazine

In this tutorial, Chidi Orji is going to show you how to use the [Web Worker API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API) to manage time-consuming and UI-blocking tasks in a JavaScript app by building a sample web app that leverages Web Workers. Finally, we’ll end the article by transferring everything to a React application. If you need more insights into this topic, Chi

COChidi OrjiChidi Orji·October 15, 2020Frontend
SRE & Ops — Introducing resctl-demo: Better resource control with simulation

Introducing resctl-demo: Better resource control with simulation

What it is: We all want our workloads to run on our machines as efficiently as possible. With the Facebook resource control demo (resctl-demo), developers can simulate system resource conflicts and test ways to resolve them. It’s like going on a guided tour through a system’s resource control, complete with live demos and detailed explanations. […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 14, 2020SRE & Ops
Career & Teams — Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users

Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users

Slack brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done. Normally, team members can invite one another to Slack via email invitation. Invited users can accept the invitation to activate their account, but if they don’t, then their team members can’t collaborate with them. To solve this problem we created Email Bridge:…

MBMadhu Balakrishna·October 14, 2020Career & Teams
Engineering — Zero Trust For Everyone

Zero Trust For Everyone

Announcing our new Teams plans, and more specifically, our Cloudflare for Teams Free plan, which protects up to 50 users at no cost.

AAbeAbe·October 13, 2020Engineering