The Best Request Is No Request, Revisited

What’s the role of bundling in performance now that HTTP/2 is becoming more ubiquitous? Let Stefan Baumgartner help you find out. - https://goo.gl/DPzTPV

#http2

The Performance Cost of Server Side Rendered React on Node.js

“there is a price to pay for server side rendered React.js” -
https://goo.gl/roaJef

#react #serverSideRender

Progressive Web Apps: A Crash Course

Ahmed Bouchefra explains PWAs by showing how to build one from scratch with ES6 and React, optimizing it step by step with Lighthouse for UX and performance. - https://goo.gl/C2mtzg

#pwa

Recreating the Apple Watch Breathe App Animation

Geoff Graham shows how to recreate the Apple Watch breathe app animation using CSS. - https://goo.gl/tXYX6E

#css #animation

Animating Layouts with the FLIP Technique

Stands for First, Last, Invert, Play. It’s a technique for animating DOM elements smoothly. - https://goo.gl/wLy5qY

#css

React 16.2 Released with Improved 'Fragments' Support

Fragments are for grouping multiple children that are being returned from a component’s render method. This post thoroughly digs into why that might be useful - https://goo.gl/KmmVQQ

#react #release

Learn How to Write a Vue Wrapper Component

A Vue “wrapper” component is a technique used to integrate a 3rd party plugin with Vue by wrapping it in a custom Vue component. - https://goo.gl/nZATsU

#vue

Pzuraq - ES Classes in Ember.js

A guide to using ES classes in Ember.js in conjunction with Ember Decorators. - https://goo.gl/bdn8oZ

#ember

Common Responsive Layouts with CSS Grid (and some without!)

If you want to get started with CSS Grid then try and replicate some of these web layouts. Jo has already built them so there’s code for you to test out, but half the fun is working on your own solution. -
https://goo.gl/TzkiEy

#css #responsive

NPMGraph: See Module Dependency Trees in Your Browser

Enter an npm module name and this tool renders an interactive dependency tree in your browser. - https://goo.gl/Qr1r6M

#nodejs #tools

Clean Code vs. Dirty Code: React Best Practices - https://goo.gl/dzzHDZ

#react

Designing for a 'Browserless' Web

Mitch takes a close look at PWAs on Android devices and explains how we can pave the way for a new era of ‘browserless’ web browsing. - https://goo.gl/UnawjZ

#design #web

Marvel API + Vuepack (Vue + Vuex)

This tutorial by Phong Huynh shows how to use Vue and Vuex to build a simple application that displays Marvel characters. - https://goo.gl/ASMxvM

#vue

Should I use system fonts or web fonts?

Web fonts were an amazing step forward towards creating a more beautifully designed web. No longer were we restrained by the handful of choices that “Web Safe” fonts provided us, we now had the ability to bring just about any typeface to the web in the knowledge that everyone would see the same thing. - https://goo.gl/bYQzPH

#css #fonts

Monitoring App Performance with 2 New Node APIs

Building a tool to monitor Node app performance is easy with the Async Hooks and Performance Hooks APIs. Learn how in this tutorial. - https://goo.gl/6Xqh4n

#nodejs

Mocking Vuex in Vue Unit Tests

In this interesting article, Lachlan Miller explains why you should avoid using Vuex in component tests. He presents his own best practices that he discovered while working on several large Vue/Vuex applications. - https://goo.gl/odt7hp

#vuex #testing

Inquirer.js: A Collection of Common Interactive CLI Controls

Aims to be “an easily embeddable and beautiful command line interface” for Node. - https://goo.gl/ApsYP6

#nodejs #tools

Scaffolding a GraphQL API Server with Node

A walkthrough of the various pieces you need to bring together to build a Node server that can speak GraphQL. - https://goo.gl/6XC9eQ

#graphql #nodejs

A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies

A golden-oldie set of pros, cons and helpful tips spanning the various ways of loading Web fonts on your site. - https://goo.gl/FoqRo9

#font #guide

Faux Grid Tracks

When creating layouts with CSS Grid a question that I get quite a bit is how to style the gaps between the grid items. Unfortunately, for now, this isn’t possible within the specification and none of the browsers have provided support for the styling of grid-gap yet either. The fix that I always refer to is to apply a background colour to the containing div which will show through the cracks. In this article Eric Meyer explores a few options and how they might come unstuck. - https://goo.gl/6RFv9X

#css #grid