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Frontend — Master TypeScript In 50 Short Lessons — Smashing Magazine

Master TypeScript In 50 Short Lessons — Smashing Magazine

Meet our new book, “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, a deep-dive to understand what TypeScript is, how it works, and how you can make it work for you. With code walkthroughs, hands-on examples and common gotchas. 464 pages. Jump to table of contents and get the book right away.

VFVitaly FriedmanVitaly Friedman·October 7, 2020Frontend
Engineering — Developing For The Semantic Web — Smashing Magazine

Developing For The Semantic Web — Smashing Magazine

The dream of a machine-readable Internet is as old as the Internet itself, but only in recent years has it really seemed possible. The benefits of developing for the Semantic Web are not always immediate, or visible, but every site that does strengthens the foundations of an open, transparent, decentralized internet. As major websites take strides towards data-fying their content, now’s the perfec

FOFrederick O BrienFrederick O Brien·October 7, 2020Engineering
Performance — New and Improved Developer Guides

New and Improved Developer Guides

New developer guides for the Dropbox API are available for OAuth, File Access, Sharing, Extensions, Team Files, Team Administration, Performance, Error Handling, and Detecting Changes.

TKTaylor Krusen·October 6, 2020Performance
Engineering — Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1

Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1

As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…

AVAbby VollmerAbby Vollmer·October 6, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly? — Smashing Magazine

Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly? — Smashing Magazine

In some instances, privacy policy, terms of use, and cookie consent pages do have to be ugly. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve upon how easy they are to read or navigate (which visitors will definitely appreciate). Today, we’re going to look at four ways that web designers can contribute to getting more policy disclosure pages read and terms actually agreed to.

SSSuzanne ScaccaSuzanne Scacca·October 6, 2020Engineering
Security — Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Today we’re announcing the availability of DDoS attack alerts. The alerts are available for free for all Cloudflare’s customers on paid plans. Learn how to create an alert.

CCloudflare·October 5, 2020Security
Engineering — On the Web Share API

On the Web Share API

I think the Web Share API is very cool (here's our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you're on, if that

CCChris Coyier·October 5, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.

JWJosh W. Comeau·October 5, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Useful Tools In Vue.js Web Development — Smashing Magazine

Useful Tools In Vue.js Web Development — Smashing Magazine

There are some tools that developers that are just getting started with Vue or sometimes, have experience building with Vue sometimes do not know exist to make development in Vue a lot easier. Today, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you a few of these libraries, what they do, and how to use them during development. This tutorial is aimed at beginners that either just started learning about Vue or alr

TOTimi OmoyeniTimi Omoyeni·October 5, 2020Frontend
Networking — DNS Flag Day 2020

DNS Flag Day 2020

October 1 is DNS Flag Day, an initiative by the DNS community to make DNS more secure, reliable and robust. This year the focus is on problems around IP fragmentation of DNS packets.

CCloudflare·October 2, 2020Networking