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[based on a true story]

So. Your friend's about to teach you how to make a website. Great!

You make a file, and you save it as 'index.html'. Why it's called 'index' isn't really explained to you, but whatever.

You type the following.

hello world
@gaearon
gaearon / index.js
Last active January 5, 2022 18:45
Breaking out of Redux paradigm to isolate apps
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import Subapp from './subapp/Root'
class BigApp extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div>
<Subapp />
<Subapp />
<Subapp />
@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active November 15, 2024 16:45
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
@sparrc
sparrc / phabricator_readme.md
Last active March 25, 2024 05:59
Phabricator Ubuntu Installation Guide

Phabricator Ubuntu Installation Guide

This is a supplement to the official Phabricator Installation Guide, because their guide will leave you with all kinds of permission and config errors and ~15,000 setup issues on startup.

Install bonus packages:

# apt-get install mercurial subversion python-pygments sendmail imagemagick

Create necessary users and add phd-user to sudoers:

2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ

Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.

Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.

What is Relay?

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active November 5, 2024 18:44
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

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.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

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

@crtr0
crtr0 / client.js
Created June 8, 2012 17:02
A simple example of setting-up dynamic "rooms" for socket.io clients to join
// set-up a connection between the client and the server
var socket = io.connect();
// let's assume that the client page, once rendered, knows what room it wants to join
var room = "abc123";
socket.on('connect', function() {
// Connected, let's sign-up for to receive messages for this room
socket.emit('room', room);
});
@jasonrudolph
jasonrudolph / git-branches-by-commit-date.sh
Created February 12, 2012 20:40
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r