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Facebook’s web tier is one of the main services that handle HTTP requests from people using our services each time they interact with Facebook. It is a massive global service distributed across multiple data centers throughout the world. Since we have people from all over the world using our services, the load on the web […]
GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) is a set JavaScript functions that let you tween a value/attribute/CSS property over time and insert these tweens into a timeline for more complex animations. In this article, Blessing explains how GSAP plays well with the React library by integrating its functions into a React component in building an example landing page with a variety of animations.
The Watermark API lets you add a watermark to a video at the time of uploading. It consists of two new features to the Stream API.
This week we celebrate the 14th birthday of Smashing Magazine. We didn’t quite have the year that we planned though! I took a look back at some memories from this year and previous years — with the help of the team and some Smashing friends.
Being able to run Google’s Lighthouse analysis suite programmatically provides a lot of advantages, especially for larger or more complex web applications. Using Lighthouse programmatically allows engineers to set up quality monitoring for sites that need more customization than straightforward applications of Lighthouse (such as Lighthouse CI) allow. This article contains a brief introduction to
Cloudflare powers cdnjs, an open-source project that delivers popular JavaScript libraries to over 11% of websites. Today, we are excited to announce its migration to a serverless infrastructure using Cloudflare Workers and its distributed key-value store Workers KV!
Changing specific characters can be a challenge in CSS. In this article, we'll explore several ways to modify specific letters using CSS and JavaScript.
Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of "View Source," I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same page about what
Announcing the public beta of our new integration between GitHub and Microsoft Teams.
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics every week to help…
Choosing what CMS to use in your next development project is a critical decision for any business, large or small. In this guide, Jonathan Kelley is going to run through the potential of Craft CMS, setting up a local environment and creating a basic cat blog with an API endpoint to accompany it. It’s a perfect jumping off point for anyone looking to expand from their current CMS system, or make th
Prebuilt payment pages save engineering hours and increase revenue. Learn more about the benefits of utilizing a prebuilt checkout page.
Unimog is the Layer 4 Load Balancer for Cloudflare’s edge data centers. This post explains the problems it solves and how it works.
Area 1 blocks social engineering, COVID-19 phishing emails impersonating Small Business Administration, using Newly Registered Domains, PDF attachments.
I don’t typically work with UI libraries because they can be cumbersome and hard to override, which can contribute to a bloated. However, Ant Design has
SQL and PostgreSQL can be used to create sample data which possesses certain statistical properties like a normal distribution.
To provide a more convenient and painless experience, we built a tool enabling React Native developers to quickly load their peer’s work within seconds.
In this guide, Ibrahima Ndaw will be looking at Next.js, a popular React framework that offers a great developer experience and ships with all of the features you need for production. We will also build a blog, step by step, using Next.js and MDX. Finally, we’ll cover why you would opt for Next.js instead of “vanilla” React and alternatives such as Gatsby.
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new
Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake's blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing. But thanks to web
Many development environments require running things in a terminal window. npm run start, or whatever. I know my biggest project requires me to be running a
As our infrastructure has expanded, we have seen an exponential growth in failures that affect a subset of capacity in a data center. These may stem from software or firmware errors, or issues in the mechanical or electrical equipment in the data center. As our data center footprint grows, so does the frequency of such […]
Thanks to the wide support of the prefers-reduced-motion-media feature, we now have more advanced ways to design motion that can be creative and innovative while also being safer for those with motion sensitivities.
