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Performance — Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With Tauri And Vue.js — Smashing Magazine

Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With Tauri And Vue.js — Smashing Magazine

Tauri is a toolchain for creating small, fast, and secure desktop apps from your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this article, Kelvin explains how Tauri plays well with the progressive framework Vue.js by integrating both technologies in bundling an example web app called **nota** as a native application.

KOKelvin OmereshoneKelvin Omereshone·July 8, 2020Performance
Engineering — Building Cloudflare TV from scratch

Building Cloudflare TV from scratch

Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products. This blog post covers the story of why we decided to build Cloudflare TV in-house and some of the technologies that make it possible.

OOliverOliver·July 7, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Dropbox App Center in Beta

Dropbox App Center in Beta

The Dropbox App Center is launched in beta. The App Center is a centralized place to find tools that enhance your Dropbox experience.

KAKyle Anderson·July 7, 2020Engineering
SRE & Ops — Introducing our 2019 Sustainability Report

Introducing our 2019 Sustainability Report

As the world navigates the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are focusing not only on their business strategy, but also on their approach to key environmental and social issues. One of several areas we are focusing on now is our commitment to sustainable business practices and reporting. Today, we are taking another important step toward increased transparency […]

MEMeta Engineering·July 7, 2020SRE & Ops
Frontend — CSS News July 2020 — Smashing Magazine

CSS News July 2020 — Smashing Magazine

If you are the sort of person who doesn’t like reading about things if you can’t use them now, then this article probably isn’t for you — we have many others for you to enjoy instead! However, if you like to know what is on the way and read more about the things you can play with in a beta version of a browser, read on! Today, Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the interesting CSS features that

RARachel AndrewRachel Andrew·July 7, 2020Frontend
SRE & Ops — Retrie: Haskell refactoring made easy

Retrie: Haskell refactoring made easy

What’s new: We’ve open-sourced Retrie, a code refactoring tool for Haskell that makes codemodding faster, easier, and safer. Using Retrie, developers can efficiently rewrite large codebases (exceeding 1 million lines), express rewrites as equations in Haskell syntax instead of regular expressions, and avoid large classes of codemodding errors. Retrie’s features include the ability to rewrite […] R

CWChris Wiltz·July 6, 2020SRE & Ops
Performance — Understanding Plugin Development In Gatsby — Smashing Magazine

Understanding Plugin Development In Gatsby — Smashing Magazine

Gatsby is a modern static-site generator that has revamped the way static websites are being built. It incorporates React, Node.js, and GraphQL to create stunning and blazing-fast websites. In this post, Aleem Isiaka will introduce Gatsby plugins, discuss the types of Gatsby plugins that exist, differentiate between the forms of Gatsby plugins, and, finally, create a comment plugin that can be use

AIAleem IsiakaAleem Isiaka·July 6, 2020Performance
Performance — Make Your Sites Fast, Accessible And Secure With Help From Google — Smashing Magazine

Make Your Sites Fast, Accessible And Secure With Help From Google — Smashing Magazine

From June 30th to July 2nd, Google’s web platform team brought together the web community for [web.dev LIVE](https://web.dev/shows/web-dev-live-day-1), a digital event to talk about the latest development to the platform and tools ecosystem, give developers a chance to talk to each other and ask their burning questions to the team. Over the three days, the Google team shared a round of updates and

DADion AlmaerDion Almaer·July 6, 2020Performance
Career & Teams — GitHub Action Hero: Casey Lee

GitHub Action Hero: Casey Lee

The GitHub community is capable of incredible things and GitHub Actions is the tool. Do you want to automate your workflow, increase your productivity, and empower your developer experience? Then…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·July 3, 2020Career & Teams
Frontend — How To Test Your React Apps With The React Testing Library — Smashing Magazine

How To Test Your React Apps With The React Testing Library — Smashing Magazine

Testing gives confidence in written code. In the context of this article, ‘testing’ means ‘automated testing’. Without automated testing, it is significantly harder to ensure the quality of a web application of significant complexity. Fails caused by automated testing may lead to more bugs in production. In this article, Chidi Orji is going to show you how React developers can quickly start testin

COChidi OrjiChidi Orji·July 3, 2020Frontend
Performance — Links on Performance II

Links on Performance II

Just had a couple of good performance links burning a hole in my pocket, so blogging them like a good little blogger.

CCChris Coyier·July 2, 2020Performance
Engineering — How we launched docs.github.com

How we launched docs.github.com

ICYMI: docs.github.com is the new place to discover all of GitHub’s product documentation! We recently completed a major overhaul of GitHub’s documentation websites. When you visit docs.github.com today, you’ll see…

SSSarah SchneiderSarah Schneider·July 2, 2020Engineering
Engineering — GitHub Supports the Open Technology Fund

GitHub Supports the Open Technology Fund

Last week, GitHub joined over 500 organizations signing a letter to the U.S. Congress seeking continued support for the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and its mission of funding open source…

MLMike LinksvayerMike Linksvayer·July 2, 2020Engineering
Frontend — A First Look at Reanimated 2 - Shopify

A First Look at Reanimated 2 - Shopify

With Reanimated 2, the team at Software Mansion asked: “How would it look if there were no constraints when writing gestures and animations in React Native?” and started from there.

SEShopify Engineering·July 2, 2020Frontend