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Beyond REST — Using GraphQL to shape your data

Overview GraphQL is an exciting API for ad-hoc queries and manipulation of hierarchical data. It is extremely flexible, has great tooling...
Gigi Sayfan
9 min read
The Best React Inline Style Libraries Compared

The best React inline style libraries  compared

In any non-trivial React app, CSS styles can become a problem if you don’t manage them correctly. Global style definitions, !important rules...
Esteban Herrera
11 min read
Using Recompose To Write Clean Higher-Order Components

Using Recompose to write clean higher-order components

Editor’s note: Active maintenance of the Recompose library was discontinued as of 25 October 2018. The author recommends using React Hooks...
JuanMa Garrido
7 min read
Set Up React Hot Loader In 10 Minutes

Set up React Hot Loader in 10 minutes

Several years ago, it was becoming tiring (and annoying in the case where the changes do not render as expected) to...
Christian Nwamba
7 min read

Flexing with CSS Flexbox

Flexbox also known as flexible box is a type of layout model in CSS that makes it super easy to design...
Nosa Obaseki
3 min read

A quick and complete guide to TypeScript types

Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. TypeScript...
Christian Nwamba
4 min read

Submitting HTML forms using JavaScript frameworks (Vue, React, Hyperapp)

HTML forms can send an HTTP request declaratively while submitting forms and awaiting response. However, you have to wait for a...
Ogundipe Samuel
8 min read

What every developer needs to know about HTML email

HTML email: you may love it, you may hate it — but you have heard of it. I bet you have an opinion...
Jason Rodriguez
10 min read
5 React Motion Use Cases With Examples

5 React Motion use cases with examples

React Motion is a library that makes it easy to create realistic animations within components using the laws of physics. An...
Christian Nwamba
17 min read

How CSS works: Understanding the cascade

A few weeks back I got to start a short series on CSS fundamentals. If you’re in the front-end web development...
Benjamin Johnson
5 min read

Extending a client with the language server protocol

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ We’ve seen quite a lot of movement on the editor front in recent years. First, Sublime Text came to conquer...
Florian Rappl
13 min read

Binary data in the browser: Untangling an encoding mess with JavaScript Typed Arrays

Until recently, I wasn’t very familiar with using Typed Arrays because I tended to avoid the the black magic of working...
Omar Shehata
9 min read