What's Coming in Angular 9.0.0 and Ivy Improvements

Angular 9.0 was due to be released this year but is being held back until next year to give the team a break. Nonetheless, it’s going to pack in some key improvements. - http://amp.gs/DPqA

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Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps

When Chrome 72 for Android shipped in January, it brought with it the ability to distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store. - http://amp.gs/DhtZ

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Portal - a new feature in Vue 3 - Filip Rakowski

Have you played the Portal game. There’s a similar concept for web frameworks, where you are able to teleport a component to a different location in the DOM? This is especially useful for modals (so it’s easier to manage things like z-index). Did you know we will likely get those in Vue 3.0 built-in? But until then, check out the portal-vue library. - http://amp.gs/DhMU

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The Trick to Animating the Dot on the Letter “i”

Ali Churcher shows how to build a creative animation effect. - http://amp.gs/DvLY

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An Introduction to Controlling the Raspberry Pi 4's GPIO Pins from Node

If you’ve got a Raspberry Pi sat around (I have a few!) and you’re looking to have a play over the holiday season, you could start here. - http://amp.gs/Dgcp

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useEffect and useRef Explained for Mortals

“Sometimes the pantheon of React Gods have a hard time translating their wisdom into language the rest of us can understand.” If you agree, this introduction may well be for you. - http://amp.gs/DEKV

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The TypeScript Tax: A Cost vs Benefit Analysis

As much as we love JavaScript, this was really a strong year for TypeScript, with it seeming to become the de facto way to bring strong typing to JavaScript. Back in January, Eric Elliott asked "is it worth it?" and presented some critical, data-driven analysis to establish its viability. It was your most clicked link of 2019. - http://amp.gs/DVJw

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10 Useful Angular Features You’ve Probably Never Used

Assuming you actually use Angular in the first place, naturally. - http://amp.gs/D4ZO

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Vue-router — props — 1/2 - Adam Orłowski

Here’s a short article with a few useful tips to working with Vue-router and component props. Did you know – for example – that you can automatically transform things like this.$route.params.id into an id prop? Read the article to learn how! - http://amp.gs/D4DY

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25 Days of CSS Animations: Teaching Myself CSS through Motion Design.

Béthy Diakabana shares lessons learned while doing 25 days of CSS animations challenge. - http://amp.gs/DRyD

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This Month in Vue - December 2019 – Gregg Pollack

Here’s a summary of all the great things Vue from December prepared by the great folks from VueMastery. - http://amp.gs/DR2L

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Understanding Decorators in JavaScript

Decorators are a first-class concept in some languages that can be used to quickly modify functions or classes by way of a simple directive. The idea is still merely a proposal for JavaScript, but it’s possible to adapt some of the ideas now with Babel. - http://amp.gs/DUf1

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This Holiday Season, Give Yourself the Gift of Easy Angular i18n with Transloco!

Good news everyone! Netanel Basal, who brought us the sleek state management of Akita, and the efficient testing tools of Spectator, has done it again - http://amp.gs/DdTK

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How I Structure My React Code

One developer’s thoughts on how she likes to lay out the code within her React projects, including dividing code into domain logic vs reusable components. - http://amp.gs/DdLw

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Flash Grid: Learn CSS Grid by Building a Grid System

Sebastiano Guerriero explains how CSS Grid works by creating a simple grid system. - http://amp.gs/DOwG

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43 JavaScript Questions, With Their Answers Explained

Whether for fun or a job interview, this remains an interesting set of JavaScript-related questions, complete with explanations of the answers. - http://amp.gs/Dr6f

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Vue.js Performance - Optimizing third-party libraries - Filip Rakowski

Vue.js is generally very performant and small, but that might not be true about all the other packages that you use in your app. In this article, Filip Rakowski explains how to define a performance budget, compare how different libraries affect the performance and load time (using Bundlephobia) and optimize your imports. - http://amp.gs/DSHQ

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The State of Storybook at the End of 2019

Storybook is a popular tool for developing and showcasing UI components (originally just for React, but now supporting Angular, Vue, and others). 2019 saw even more growth for Storybook’s ecosystem and community. - http://amp.gs/DN0q

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Min and Max Width/Height in CSS

Ahmad Shadeed goes through the maximum and minimum CSS properties for width and height explains each one and lists possible use cases. - http://amp.gs/DAXa

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