The Web in 2020: Extensibility and Interoperability
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward
Bad accessibility equals bad quality
Here’s a smart post from Manuel Matuzovic where he digs into why accessibility is so important for building websites:
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.
How we built the good first issues feature
We’ve recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.
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Follower Clusters – 3 Major Use Cases for Syncing SQL & NoSQL Deployments - High Scalability -
Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Unlike cloning or replication, this allows you to maintain an active, point-in-time copy of your production data. This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application perf
Super Simple Start to ESModules in the Browser
All major browsers support ESModules now. Here's how to get started using them.
How To Pass Data Between Components In Vue.js — Smashing Magazine
Unless you’re creating your entire Vue app in one component (which wouldn’t make any sense), you’re going to encounter situations where you need to share data between components. With so many different ways to share data across components, you should know which technique is best for your situation. In this article, Matt Maribojoc will analyze three of the most common ways to pass data in VueJS.
Edgium
January 15th, 2020 was the day Microsoft Edge went Chromium. A drop in browser engine diversity. There is a strong argument to be made that's not good for an
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
Introducing Our New SmashingConf City Of Austin — Smashing Magazine
SmashingConf is coming to Austin! In this post, Rachel Andrew gives you a rundown of what you can expect and shares a video interview with Miriam Suzanne who will be sharing the stage with the rest of the brilliant SmashingConf Austin speakers!
How to Turn a Procreate Drawing into a Web Animation
I recently started drawing on my iPad using the Procreate app with Apple Pencil. I’m enjoying the flexibility of drawing this way. What usually keeps me from
Getting Started with Front End Testing
Amy Kapernick covers four types of testing that front-end devs could and should be doing:
Implementing a simple state machine library in JavaScript
Let's write a state machine abstraction together to understand it better
Recreating The Arduino Pushbutton Using SVG And — Smashing Magazine
HTML comes with a bunch of input controls, and there are tons of component libraries that include many standard controls such as checkboxes, and radio buttons. But what happens when you need something unusual? In this article, Uri Shaked will show you how to build custom HTML components that mimic physical objects, such as the Arduino Pushbutton. We’ll draw the component in Inkscape from scratch,
Eleventy Love
Been seeing a lot of Eleventy action lately. It's a smaller player in the world of static site generators, but I think it's got huge potential because of how
Autumn (macOS window manager)
I love how nerdy this is. Autumn allows you to write JavaScript to control your windows. Get this window, move it over here. Nudge this window over. There are
Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.
All Things Smashing: Monthly Update — Smashing Magazine
With so much going on, we’ve made it our mission to help you stay on top of things. Of course, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and subscribe to our RSS feed, but it’s nice to have an overview of the most important things in one place. With this guide, Iris Lješnjanin covers pretty much everything from performance budgets to single-page apps to networking optimizations.
Announcing the Cloudflare Access App Launch
Since launch, Cloudflare Access has helped improve how users connect to secured applications. When you protect an application with Access, users never have to connect to a private network and never have to deal with a clunky VPN client.
Third-Party Components at Their Best
I'm a fan of the componentization of the web. I think it's a very nice way to build a website at just about any scale (except, perhaps, the absolute most
The Design Squiggle
I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain
The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers $200k worth of tools and training to every student
The GitHub Student Developer Pack now delivers over $200k worth of tools and training to every student with the addition of 22 new partners.
Scaling Mobile Development by Treating Apps as Services - Shopify
Scaling development without slowing down the delivery speed of new features is a problem that companies face when they grow. Speed can be achieved through better tooling, but the bigger the teams and projects, the more tooling they need. When projects and teams use different tools to solve similar problems, it gets harder for tooling teams to create one solution that works for everybody. Additiona