Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
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font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts. Google Fonts are used by many websites (including Scotch.io) and up until now, we didn't have the ability to c...
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New ECMAScript Modules in Node v12
If you’re familiar with popular JavaScript frontend frameworks like React, Angular, etc, then the concept of ECMAScript won’t be entirely new to you. ES Modules have the import and export syntax we see often in frontend frameworks. Node uses CommonJS which re...
Create a Bouncing Page Loader with CSS3 Animations
Side projects are not only fun but they bring a whole lot of learning experience for you. While hunting for a pre-built page loader for a website I ended up coding one for myself. Initially, I had a view that implementing CSS3 animations are quite a cumbersome task so, I looked for an onli...
10 Awesome Things from MS Build Day 1
Microsoft Build is packed with gazillion announcements, fun activities, people and it's so much to fit into one article. I won't be doing justice to the event by trying to fit everything that happened today in one article but I am just going to try and highlight some exciting news for those who a...
Microsoft Announces a New "Windows Terminal"
I am a big fan of Windows (shame shame shame). I’m usually the only Surface in a sea of MacBooks. I love both platforms and work on both. My kitchen laptop is a 2015 MacBook and I’d gladly get another if they ever fix the keyboard so that it has more than 1mm of travel. ...
Build a Slack App in 10 Minutes with MongoDB Stitch
Slack is not only the fastest growing startup in history, but it's also an app by the same name and one of the most popular communication tools in use today. We use it...
Quick and Simple Search Filter Using Vanilla JavaScript
When building Single Page Applications a feature I frequently find myself adding is a simple search filter. Nothing too in depth, I'll just want a text field to be able to quickly filter over items to find specific ones. I'm going to share what I do, because it's quick to implement, perfor...
create-react-app v3, What's new?
When you're looking to setup your React developer environment, create-react-app is one of the go to ways to go about it. This package allows you to do so with minimal configuration as it creates most of the boilerplate code needed to get you up and running. The React team recently un...
Use Artificial Intelligence to Suggest 1-5 Star Ratings
A handful of products rely on reviews and star-ratings for product feedback. When customers are impressed or dissatisfied about our product, they come back to where it was purchased looking for a way to leave feedback. Apps and e-commerce products are examples of the scenarios where we would love...
An Introduction To Storybook: Organize How You Build JS Components
What is Storybook? Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation and it integrates pretty well with most front end frameworks including React, Vue, and Angular and a host of other frameworks. It makes building stunning ...
Add Authentication and Personalization to VuePress
There are several advantages to using a static site generator such as VuePress. With VuePress, you can focus on writing content using markdown, and the VuePress application generates static HTML files. VuePress also turns your content into a single-page application (SPA), so transitions between p...
Make Browsing GitHub Easier and Faster with Octotree
GitHub is an amazing tool that many of us developers use on a daily basis. While GitHub has many great features, one thing that I've always found it to lack is browsing speed. They've got keyboard shortcuts to get to the search bar (/) but it still isn't the easiest. If you wa...
Wrap a Vanilla JavaScript Package for Use in React
Complex web projects often require the use of 3rd party widgets. But what if you're using a framework while a widget is only available in pure JavaScript? To use a JavaScript widget in your project, the best approach would be to create a framework specific wrapper. That's wha...
Getting started with visual testing in 5 minutes
There are tons of tools out there that help you make sure your app is functioning perfectly, but how do you catch bugs that are purely visual? In the example above, the button stil...
Make Gmail Cleaner with the Simplify Chrome Extension
Google Inbox is officially gone, and for many, it's a hard pill to swallow. Hardcore fans are desperate to try and fill the void that Inbox has left. Here's a piece of good news. The Simplify Gmail extension for Chrome will bring you the familiar simplicity ...
