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paulirish / bling.js
Last active September 13, 2025 12:13
bling dot js
/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };
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paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active November 12, 2025 10:20
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

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
anonymous
anonymous / devServer.js
Created November 19, 2015 21:59
var path = require('path');
var express = require('express');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var config = require('./webpack.config.dev');
var fs = require('fs');
var app = express();
var compiler = webpack(config);
app.use(require('webpack-dev-middleware')(compiler, {
@joepie91
joepie91 / express-server-side-rendering.md
Last active April 26, 2025 08:11
Rendering pages server-side with Express (and Pug)

Terminology

  • View: Also called a "template", a file that contains markup (like HTML) and optionally additional instructions on how to generate snippets of HTML, such as text interpolation, loops, conditionals, includes, and so on.
  • View engine: Also called a "template library" or "templater", ie. a library that implements view functionality, and potentially also a custom language for specifying it (like Pug does).
  • HTML templater: A template library that's designed specifically for generating HTML. It understands document structure and thus can provide useful advanced tools like mixins, as well as more secure output escaping (since it can determine the right escaping approach from the context in which a value is used), but it also means that the templater is not useful for anything other than HTML.
  • String-based templater: A template library that implements templating logic, but that has no understanding of the content it is generating - it simply concatenates together strings, potenti
@001101
001101 / accounting.sql
Created February 18, 2017 09:08 — forked from NYKevin/accounting.sql
Basic double-entry bookkeeping system, for PostgreSQL.
CREATE TABLE accounts(
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE entries(
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
description VARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL,
amount NUMERIC(20, 2) NOT NULL CHECK (amount > 0.0),
-- Every entry is a credit to one account...