alekseykulikov

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:

• SUIT CSS naming conventions + SUIT CSS design principles;
• PostCSS + CSSNext. Future CSS syntax like variables, nesting, and autoprefixer are good enough;
• Flexbox is awesome. No need for grid framework;
• Normalize.css, base styles and variables are solid foundation for all components;

cscalfani

Type Safe JSON Decoding in Elm

The power of a Static Typed language can seem magical at first. But the goal here is to take a tiny peak behind that curtain.

Elm's implementation of JSON parsing is type safe and how it achieves that can seem like a mystery. Even though I got the code to work, it took me a while to fully understand how it works.

I'm writing it down here for 2 reasons. To help others gain a greater understanding of Types and so I don't forget what I learned.

Word of Caution

ericclemmons

Using <details> in GitHub

Suppose you're opening an issue and there's a lot noisey logs that may be useful.

Rather than wrecking readability, wrap it in a <details> tag!

<details>
 Summary Goes Here

jeromepl

import { Component } from "React";

export default (ComposedComponent) => class extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { data: null };
  }
  componentDidMount() {
    this.setState({ data: 'Hello' });
  }

jareware

Important: At the time of writing (2019-11-11) Immutable.js is effectively abandonware, so I can no longer recommend anyone to follow the advice given here. I'll leave the article here for posterity, since it's still getting some traffic.

Understanding Immutable.Record

Functional programming principles and with it immutable data are changing the way we write frontend applications. If the recent de-facto frontend stack of React and Redux feels like it goes perfectly together with immutable data, that's because it's specifically designed for that.

There's several interesting implementations of immutable data for JavaScript, but here I'll be focusing on Facebook's own Immutable.js, and specifically on one of i

jonschlinkert

Open iTerm from finder

The code and instructions in this gist are from http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html. I've had to do this a few times and wanted to distill it the basics.

1. Open Automator
2. Create an Application
3. Choose Actions > Utilities > Run Applescript
4. Paste the contents of open_in_iterm.app into the window.
5. Save the script somewhere convenient
6. Find the script, then drag the script onto the Finder window while holding the command key (or in Yosemite, the command + option keys)

auser

export const GoogleApi = function(opts) {
  opts = opts || {}

  const apiKey = opts.apiKey;
  const libraries = opts.libraries || [];
  const client = opts.client;
  const URL = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js';

  const googleVersion = '3.22';
  let script = null;

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

gaearon

function mapValues(obj, fn) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
    result[key] = fn(obj[key], key);
    return result;
  }, {});
}

function pick(obj, fn) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
    if (fn(obj[key])) {

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