laughinghan

• any: magic, ill-behaved type that acts like a combination of never (the proper [bottom type]) and unknown (the proper [top type])
  • Anything except never is assignable to any, and any is assignable to anything at all.
  • Identities: any & AnyTypeExpression = any, any | AnyTypeExpression = any
  • Key TypeScript feature that allows for [gradual typing].
• unknown: proper, well-behaved [top type]
  • Anything at all is assignable to unknown. unknown is only assignable to itself (unknown) and any.
  • Identities: unknown & AnyTypeExpression = AnyTypeExpression, unknown | AnyTypeExpression = unknown

• Prefer over any whenever possible. Anywhere in well-typed code you're tempted to use any, you probably want unknown.

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

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions