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finally-polyfill

A tiny ~150-byte polyfill for Promise.prototype.finally.

Useful for browsers that support Promise but not the .finally() method.

Usage

npm install finally-polyfill

creationix

I've designed a lot of RPC protocols in my career. One pattern that's worked well basically goes as follows:

// Client calls: print('Hello World\n')
-> [1, "print", "Hello World!\n"]
// Server sends return value (or lack of return vvalue)
<- [-1]

// Client calls: add(1, 2)
-> [2, "add", 1, 2]

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

acdlite

// getComponent is a function that returns a promise for a component
// It will not be called until the first mount
function asyncComponent(getComponent) {
  return class AsyncComponent extends React.Component {
    static Component = null;
    state = { Component: AsyncComponent.Component };

    componentWillMount() {
      if (!this.state.Component) {
        getComponent().then(Component => {

iammerrick

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { getPointRelativeToElement, getDistanceBetweenPoints } from 'utilities/geometry';

const THRESHOLD = 150;
const RANGE = 80;
const SCROLL_RANGE = 5;
const COMPLETE = 1;
const SPEED = 0.015;

jlongster

A lot of people mentioned other immutable JS libraries after reading my post. I thought it would be good to make a list of available ones.

There are two types of immutable libraries: simple helpers for copying JavaScript objects, and actual persistent data structure implementations. My post generally analyzed the tradeoffs between both kinds of libraries and everything applies to the below libraries in either category.

Libraries are sorted by github popularity.

Persistent Data Structures w/structural sharing

nhomar

#!/bin/bash
#----------
# Akkarin's Simple S3 Screenshot Script
#
# Requirements:
#  - shutter
#  - awscli
#  - zenity
#
# Note: The directory defined in $SCREENSHOT_PATH needs to exist!

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

WebReflection

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# A basic Self Signed SSL Certificate utility
# by Andrea Giammarchi @WebReflection

# https://www.webreflection.co.uk/blog/2015/08/08/bringing-ssl-to-your-private-network

# # to make it executable and use it
# $ chmod +x certificate
# $ ./certificate # to read the how-to

remy

raf.js

A simple script with a few niceties that allows for multiple requestAnimationFrame calls, and FPS pinning.

How it works

The script polyfills rAF if required, then overloads requestAnimationFrame and cancelAnimationFrame with a process that allows multiple frames to be queued up for rAF to run.

This is useful if there are multiple animations running on the page, you want all the callbacks to happen at once, and not on multiple rAF calls. This script is meant as a drop-in solution to that problem.