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My struggle to learn React

JavaScript is eating the world and the rest of the frontend stack with it. Those server-side languages people used to write in? Node. HTML? JSX. Styling? We do that in JS now too. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are three sturdy, capable languages that each have their own histories, nuances, and best practices.

News

Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript Functions in Excel

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel.

Tools & libraries

Guess.js

Libraries & tools for enabling data-driven user-experiences on the web

Tutorials & guides

CSS Motion Path beyond the Big Three Properties

While still only in Chromium-based browsers and actively being drafted for its specification, CSS Motion Path has grown up a bit in its three years since Chrome 46 rolled out the first implementation.

CSS Environment Variables

We were all introduced to the env() function in CSS when all that drama about "The Notch" and the iPhone X was going down.

The Relative Units of CSS

The units in CSS are critical as we work with these all the time. You can’t build anything without using these so we must know the units properly.

A guide to JavaScript Regular Expressions

Learn everything about JavaScript Regular Expressions with this brief guide that summarizes the most important concepts and shows them off with examples

npm audit: identify and fix insecure dependencies

Together with new automatic alerts when a user installs code with a known security risk, audit is a dramatic step to ensure the quality and integrity of the code you use, and protect the world’s largest community of open source software developers.

Real-time Human Pose Estimation in the Browser with TensorFlow.js

Pose estimation has many uses, from interactive installations that react to the body to augmented reality, animation, fitness uses, and more.

Speeding Up Webpack, Typescript Incremental Builds by 7x

What if I told you your Webpack is doing too much work all this time?

Blogs

I Used The Web For A Day With JavaScript Turned Off

Have you ever wondered whether it's possible to do anything on the web without JavaScript? How many sites use progressive enhancement in practice? Chris Ashton did an experiment to find out.

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