Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on May. 18, 2020
By Fred Hebert:if you make the build tool simple, it won't handle all the weird edge cases that exist out thereif you want to handle the weird edge cases, you need to deviate from whatever norm you wanted to establishif you want ease of use for common defaults, the rules for common defaults must be …
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on May. 8, 2020
Web browsers have a few functions that accept callback parameters. setTimeout and requestAnimationFrame are the first that come to mind.If you need to do multiple calls to these functions in a row, you quickly end up in callback hell. Here's a quick tip to flatten your code with async/await.This is …
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on May. 4, 2020
Now that we've built a dropdown list, lets add some transitions to create open & close animations.Broadly speaking, there are two ways to implement enter & leave transitions:Just use the transition CSS propertiesAnimations with JavaScript (either by modifying CSS properties, with the web an…
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on Apr. 27, 2020
Every now and then I do a quick checkup of a project's npm dependencies. I like to keep them up to date by often doing small upgrades. It's a lot less painful than doing large upgrades once a year.One annoying part of this process is ensuring every dependency is on the latest major version. For exa…
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on Apr. 20, 2020
Today I set up a static documentation site (built with Hugo) for internal use. Since it contains sensitive information, I wanted to add some sort of password protection.We don't need any dynamic user management for this, so I decided to store an encrypted password on the server with htpasswd and en…
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on Apr. 14, 2020
Confession: I don't write a lot of tests for my frontend code. This isn't something I talk about a lot because I'm scared of the pitchforks on the horizon.I write React frontends with TypeScript. I don't don't write tests because I'm lazy, or because I don't have time, I simply don't see a lot of …