JavaScript’s Performance API is prudent, because it hands over tools to accurately measure the performance of Web pages, which, in spite of being performed since long before, never really became easy or precise enough.
That said, it isn’t as easy …
User interfaces are most effective when they are intuitive and easily understandable to the user. Animation plays a major role in this – as Nick Babich said, animation brings user interfaces to life. However, adding meaningful transitions and micro-interactions …
A recent tweet touted how Netflix increased performance by stripping React from its site. Burke Holland traces his initial reaction to the tweet and dissects it further to get to the heart of what it was really trying to say.
User interfaces can be expressed by two things:
From credit card payment devices and gas pump screens to the software that your company creates, user interfaces react to the …
Even if you haven’t read my post The Importance Of JavaScript Abstractions When Working With Remote Data, chances are you’re already convinced that maintainability and scalability are important for your project and the way toward that is introducing abstractions…
In my previous article, I’ve shown how to smoothly transition from one state to another using vanilla JavaScript. Make sure you check that one out first because I’ll be referencing some things I explained there in a lot of …
CSS animations and transitions are great! However, while recently toying with an idea, I got really frustrated with the fact that gradients are only animatable in Edge (and IE 10+). Yes, we can do all sorts of tricks with background-position…
Last night I was rooting around in the cellars of a particularly large codebase and stumbled upon our normalize.css which makes sure that all of our markup renders in a similar way across different browsers. I gave it a quick …
Recently I had the experience of reviewing a project and assessing its scalability and maintainability. There were a few bad practices here and there, a few strange pieces of code with lack of meaningful comments. Nothing uncommon for a relatively …
In Part 1, I went over various functional-style techniques for cleanly rendering HTML given some JavaScript data. We broke our UI up into component functions, each of which returned a chunk of markup as a function of some data. …
I came across a couple such animations a while ago and this gave me the idea of creating my own versions with as little code as possible, no external libraries, using various methods, some of which take advantage of more …
