Links
Native image lazy-loading for the web!
What if the browser could avoid loading these offscreen images for you? This would help content in the view-port load quicker, reduce overall network data usage and on lower-end devices, reduce memory usage. Well, I'm happy to share that this will soon be possible with the new
loading
attribute for images and iframes.
Edge Goes Chromium: What Does it Mean for Front-End Developers?
There are a lot of features that pre-Chromium Edge doesn’t currently support but are available in other modern browsers and, once they’ve made the switch, we’ll be able to use them. Many of them can’t be polyfilled or worked around, so this release is a big deal.
Why you should use CSS env()
Having difficulty keeping shared CSS and JavaScript values updated and in sync? Are you faced with seemingly random bugs when updating shared values? In this article you’ll find out how you can use the upcoming CSS
env()
feature and a PostCSS plugin to share the same variables between CSS and JS, AND store them in a single file.
You don’t need Lodash -or- How I started loving JavaScript functions
A brief overview of pure replacement functions for Lodash/Underscore.js: This post is a compilation of recipes of the most commonly used Lodash utility functions to help you understand how much can be done using pure Javascript functions.
Digging Into The Display Property: The Two Values Of Display
We talk a lot about Flexbox and CSS Grid Layout, but these layout methods are essentially values of the CSS
display
property, a workhorse of a property that doesn’t get a lot of attention. Rachel Andrew takes a better look in a short series.
Videos
Why I Was Wrong About TypeScript, by TJ VanToll
In 2014, I made a strong argument that TypeScript was destined to be irrelevant and that my company should not use it in any of our projects.
In this talk we’ll discuss why I was wrong. Specifically, we’ll take a look at why TypeScript succeeded where other compile-to-JavaScript languages like CoffeeScript and Dart have languished, and what that means for future of the technology. Come to learn the basics of TypeScript, and whether TypeScript is a good fit for your next project.
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