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The most controversial HTML5 extension

  Encrypted Media Extensions (EMEs) are a hotly debated, recently added extension to the HTML5 specification. They are meant to provide support for Digital...
Dhaivat Pandya
5 min read

Announcing the LogRocket Intercom integration

Providing quick and intelligent assistance when users need help is a crucial part of your overall customer experience. In many cases, it can mean...
Ben Edelstein
1 min read

Infinite scroll techniques in React

Introduction Infinite scrolling is a web design technique that loads content continuously as the user scrolls down the page, eliminating the need for pagination....
Ogundipe Samuel
4 min read

Interesting ECMAScript 2017 proposals that weren’t adopted

It’s hard to keep up to date with all the new feature proposals. Every year dozens are proposed to the TC39 committee which controls...
Kaelan Cooter
9 min read

Rethinking frontend error reporting

Understanding problems in web apps is hard. Between mysterious JavaScript errors, user-reported bugs, and issues caught in QA, there’s a constant struggle to get...
Ben Edelstein
3 min read

Frontend in 2018: More consensus, less complexity

2017 was quite a year in frontend web development. Frameworks like React and Angular have continued to enjoy large-scale support among the community, but...
Kaelan Cooter
9 min read

Frontend in 2017: The important parts

A lot has happened in 2017, and it can be a bit overwhelming to think about. We all like to joke about how quickly...
Kaelan Cooter
13 min read

Maximizing business value as a full stack developer means…

Beautiful car! Probably doesn’t need that ridiculous engine though When you’re an independent developer you are by default a full stack engineer; whether you want...
Andrew O'Sullivan
5 min read

The monorepo: Putting code in its place

Maintaining a growing software product can be daunting. You go from a two bedroom apartment to an office full of people and along the...
Pascal Kriete
3 min read

Detect location and local timezone of users in JavaScript

Detecting the location of your users can be really useful if you want to personalize your user’s experience when they browse through your website....
Christian Nwamba
7 min read

Animating Route Transitions with React Router

React Router v4 provides an intuitive, declarative API for building React apps that support navigation. However, there is not much in the docs, stack-overflow,...
Christian Nwamba
4 min read

Quick guide to webpack bundle and code splitting with React

Introduction You’re probably here because your app has grown to the point where forcing the user to download the entire thing as a single...
Christian Nwamba
2 min read