rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

cletusw

{
  // http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

  "ecmaFeatures": {
    "binaryLiterals": false,                    // enable binary literals
    "blockBindings": false,                     // enable let and const (aka block bindings)
    "defaultParams": false,                     // enable default function parameters
    "forOf": false,                             // enable for-of loops
    "generators": false,                        // enable generators
    "objectLiteralComputedProperties": false,   // enable computed object literal property names

Sennahoi

var cheerio = require("cheerio"),
    fs = require("fs");
 
fs.readFile('bookmarks.html', "utf-8", function read(err, data) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
 
    var $ = cheerio.load(data);
    $("a").each(function(index, a) {

jonathantneal

createElement.js

createElement.js lets document.createElement use CSS selectors.

This is a pretty useful library for building out DOM elements. The whole thing runs on one regex and a for loop, so it’s plenty fast. The script is 300 bytes when compressed and gzipped. For 524 bytes (advanced), it includes nesting support and can generate entire DOM hierarchies, including text nodes.

Usage

document.createElement(); // generates <div />

hofmannsven

Git

Global Settings

• Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
• Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
• Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
• Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

Reminder

Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

jareware

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

mathewbyrne

function slugify(text)
{
  return text.toString().toLowerCase()
    .replace(/\s+/g, '-')           // Replace spaces with -
    .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '')       // Remove all non-word chars
    .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-')         // Replace multiple - with single -
    .replace(/^-+/, '')             // Trim - from start of text
    .replace(/-+$/, '');            // Trim - from end of text
}