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Avoiding CSS overrides in responsive components

I would like to demonstrate some of the benefits of scoped styles over mobile-first CSS with overrides for wider breakpoints. I'll start by explaining the two approaches, before listing the benefits.

Mobile-first with overrides for wider breakpoints

h2 {
  color: black;
 font-size: 2em;

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

HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

The standard way of understanding the HTTP protocol is via the request reply pattern. Each HTTP transaction consists of a finitely bounded HTTP request and a finitely bounded HTTP response.

However it's also possible for both parts of an HTTP 1.1 transaction to stream their possibly infinitely bounded data. The advantages is that the sender can send data that is beyond the sender's memory limit, and the receiver can act on

Effective transpiling of ES6

After publishing my article on ECMAScript 6, some have reached out to ask how I exactly I make it all work.

I refrained from including these details on the original post because they're subject to immiment obsoletion. These tools are changing and evolving quickly, and some of these instructions are likely to become outdated in the coming months or even weeks.

The main tool

When evaluating the available transpilers, I decided to use 6to5, which has recently been renamed to Babel. I chose it based on:

This is a rough overview of the options for deploying ES6 to current JavaScript environments. Not everything can be combined with everything:

Decide on a transpiler (for your code):
- TypeScript
- Traceur
- 6to5
Decide on a package manager (for existing libraries):
- npm
- Bower
jspm

Setting up github and bitbucket on the same computer (Windows)

Guide for Windows

mix3d asked for some help using this guide with windows so here we go. This was tested with Windows 10. Run all commands in Git Bash once it's installed.

Github will be the main account and bitbucket the secondary.

Git for Windows

Download and install Git for Windows
- In the installer, select everything but decide if you want a desktop icon (2nd step)

Frontend Development

Attention: the list was moved to

https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks

This page is not maintained anymore, please update your bookmarks.

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	import { options } from "preact";
	import { Signal } from "@preact/signals";

	// Add `bind:value` to JSX types
	declare global {
	namespace preact.createElement.JSX {
	interface HTMLAttributes {
	"bind:value"?: Signal<string \| string[] \| number \| undefined>;
	}
	}