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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

Handy Custom Elements' Patterns

^{Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash}

This gist is a collection of common patterns I've personally used here and there with Custom Elements.

These patterns are all basic suggestions that could be improved, enriched, readapted, accordingly with your needs.

Why I use web components

This is some sort of answer to recent posts regarding Web Components, where more than a few misconceptions were delivered as fact.

Let's start by defining what we are talking about.

The Web Components Umbrella

As you can read in the dedicated GitHub page, Web Components is a group of features, where each feature works already by itself, and it doesn't need other features of the group to be already usable, or useful.

Avoid has_many/one + belongs_to circular dependency

This is based on the use of Shopify's packwerk.

Asuming we have a posting pack with a Post model and a commenting pack with a Comment model, and we want the commenting pack to have a declared dependency on the posting pack, then here's a pattern to avoid the has_many :comments usual declaration on the Post model while still being able to have very similar functionality to the dependent option to react/restrict when a post is destroyed.

If you need to fetch a post's comments, you can simply use Comments.where(post: @post) instead of the

	* {
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-family: monospace;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: black;
	cursor: default;
	}

	// Implementation in ES6
	function pagination(c, m) {
	var current = c,
	last = m,
	delta = 2,
	left = current - delta,
	right = current + delta + 1,
	range = [],
	rangeWithDots = [],
	l;

	(function (context, trackingId, options) {
	const history = context.history;
	const doc = document;
	const nav = navigator \|\| {};
	const storage = localStorage;
	const encode = encodeURIComponent;
	const pushState = history.pushState;
	const typeException = 'exception';
	const generateId = () => Math.random().toString(36);
	const getId = () => {