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@sebmarkbage
sebmarkbage / WhyReact.md
Created September 4, 2019 20:33
Why is React doing this?

I heard some points of criticism to how React deals with reactivity and it's focus on "purity". It's interesting because there are really two approaches evolving. There's a mutable + change tracking approach and there's an immutability + referential equality testing approach. It's difficult to mix and match them when you build new features on top. So that's why React has been pushing a bit harder on immutability lately to be able to build on top of it. Both have various tradeoffs but others are doing good research in other areas, so we've decided to focus on this direction and see where it leads us.

I did want to address a few points that I didn't see get enough consideration around the tradeoffs. So here's a small brain dump.

"Compiled output results in smaller apps" - E.g. Svelte apps start smaller but the compiler output is 3-4x larger per component than the equivalent VDOM approach. This is mostly due to the code that is usually shared in the VDOM "VM" needs to be inlined into each component. The tr

@alekseykulikov
alekseykulikov / index.md
Last active April 14, 2024 00:32
Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

@bishboria
bishboria / springer-free-maths-books.md
Last active April 25, 2024 06:27
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
@paulirish
paulirish / bling.js
Last active May 1, 2024 19:56
bling dot js
/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
this.addEventListener(name, fn);
}
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
@omegahm
omegahm / create_labels.sh
Created April 7, 2015 19:00
Create Gtihub labels from Bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Colours picked from https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues/
###
# Label definitions
###
declare -A LABELS
# Platform
@averyvery
averyvery / spread.sass
Last active May 16, 2020 22:07
spread.sass
// strip-units required by spread mixin
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12328259/how-do-you-strip-the-unit-from-any-number-in-sass
@function strip-units($number)
@return $number / ($number * 0 + 1)
// pow and sqrt required by ease function
// adapted from https://github.com/at-import/Sassy-math/blob/master/sass/math.scss
@function pow($base, $exponent)
$value: $base
@DanLuchi
DanLuchi / pull_requests.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:12
What I'm asking when I ask you to review my pull request

It took me a long time to warm up to pull requests. My early experiences with code review were all a tremendous waste of time: they were a bottleneck to getting things done, a forum for people to conduct their ongoing feuds or both. After years of being staunchly against pull requests, I've come around on them in the last year at Terrible Labs.

What I'm asking when I ask you to review my pull request

1. Does this make sense to you?

Start with cthe big picture and get more detailed from there.

My pull request should be trying to accomplish only one thing and that should be explained in enough detail in the commit message for you to understand, did I succeed? If something is confusing: you're not sure how this system works, or how this new piece of code fits in with other parts of the system, let me know and we can clarify it together.

@hdragomir
hdragomir / sm-annotated.html
Last active March 5, 2024 08:57
The deferred font loading logic for Smashing Magazine. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
<script type="text/javascript">
(function () {
"use strict";
// once cached, the css file is stored on the client forever unless
// the URL below is changed. Any change will invalidate the cache
var css_href = './index_files/web-fonts.css';
// a simple event handler wrapper
function on(el, ev, callback) {
if (el.addEventListener) {
el.addEventListener(ev, callback, false);
@scottjehl
scottjehl / noncritcss.md
Last active August 12, 2023 16:57
Comparing two ways to load non-critical CSS

I wanted to figure out the fastest way to load non-critical CSS so that the impact on initial page drawing is minimal.

TL;DR: Here's the solution I ended up with: https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS/


For async JavaScript file requests, we have the async attribute to make this easy, but CSS file requests have no similar standard mechanism (at least, none that will still apply the CSS after loading - here are some async CSS loading conditions that do apply when CSS is inapplicable to media: https://gist.github.com/igrigorik/2935269#file-notes-md ).

Seems there are a couple ways to load and apply a CSS file in a non-blocking manner:

anonymous
anonymous / -
Created May 15, 2014 21:06
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: unicorn
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start unicorn at boot time
# Description: Run input app server
### END INIT INFO