It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.
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;
React Fiber is an ongoing reimplementation of React's core algorithm. It is the culmination of over two years of research by the React team.
https://gist.github.com/ljharb/58faf1cfcb4e6808f74aae4ef7944cff
While attempting to explain JavaScript's reduce
method on arrays, conceptually, I came up with the following - hopefully it's helpful; happy to tweak it if anyone has suggestions.
JavaScript Arrays have lots of built in methods on their prototype. Some of them mutate - ie, they change the underlying array in-place. Luckily, most of them do not - they instead return an entirely distinct array. Since arrays are conceptually a contiguous list of items, it helps code clarity and maintainability a lot to be able to operate on them in a "functional" way. (I'll also insist on referring to an array as a "list" - although in some languages, List
is a native data type, in JS and this post, I'm referring to the concept. Everywhere I use the word "list" you can assume I'm talking about a JS Array) This means, to perform a single operation on the list as a whole ("atomically"), and to return a new list - thus making it mu
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
If you want a run-down of the 1.3 changes and the design decisions behidn those changes, check out the LonestarElixir Phoenix 1.3 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMO28ar0lW8
To use the new phx.new
project generator, you can install the archive with the following command:
$ mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/archives/raw/master/phx_new.ez
Phoenix v1.3.0 is a backwards compatible release with v1.2.x. To upgrade your existing 1.2.x project, simply bump your phoenix dependency in mix.exs
: