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This comes from Mike Bostock (D3.js) who knows a thing or two about visualizing data in the browser. It has a concise and (hopefully) memorable API to foster fluency — and plenty of examples to learn from and copy-paste. Discuss on Changelog News … more Read More

On my project, I’m dealing with a lot of data-intensive tasks. Thankfully, importing data from multiple sources and processing the data can be automated easily. I’ve written quite a few NodeJS scripts to take care of a lot of that manual labor. However, … more Read More

Static site generators (SSGs) are popular and offer many benefits, but this article discusses reasons why they may not be a suitable replacement for your content management system (CMS). In my previous article, we discussed how your site could benefit … more Read More

There can be no doubt that React has revolutionized the way we build user interfaces. It’s easy to learn and greatly facilitates creating reusable components that offer your site a consistent look and feel. However, as React only takes care of the view … more Read More

Let’s discuss how to build robust UI components! We’ll cover when to code components vs when to build on top of third-party libraries, a unit testing structure for your components and a few options for writing documentation for your components. This … more Read More

Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain … more Read More

The dreaded refactor of old code can be challenging. Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. When tackling a big refactor, what are the things you should focus on and what … more Read More

Chrome Devtools can be really powerful, when it comes to debug JavaScript, inspect DOM nodes and their properties as well as CSS styling. in this lesson we’re quickly having a look at the “CSS Overview” feature of Chrome Devtools, that allows … more Read More

I know what you are thinking. Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. But this one is a bit different, I promise. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a … more Read More