Monthly Archives: April 2018

If you have been in the React ecosystem for a while, there is a possibility that you have heard about Higher Order Components. Let’s look at a simple implementation while also trying to explain the core idea. From here you should get a good idea of how they work and even put them to use.

Why Higher-Order Components?

As you build React applications, you will run into situations where you want to share the same functionality across multiple components…

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This is an interesting read on the current state of scrollbars and how to control their behavior across operating systems and browsers. The post also highlights a bunch of stuff I didn’t know about, like Element.scrollIntoView() and the scroll-behavior CSS property.

My favorite part of all though? It has to be this bit:

In the modern web, relying heavily on custom JavaScript to achieve identical behavior for all clients is no longer justified: the whole idea of “cross-browser compatibility” is …

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Huge thanks to Kinsta for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! We’re big fans of WordPress around here, and know some of you out there are too. So this might come of interest: Kinsta is WordPress hosting that runs on Google Cloud Platform. And in fact, it’s officially recommended by Google Cloud for fully-managed WordPress hosting.

What does that matter? Well, when you go with a cloud host you’re entering a new realm of reliability. For …

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VuePress is a new tool from Vue creator Even You that spins up Vue projects that are more on the side of websites based on content and markup than progressive web applications and does it with a few strokes of the command line.

We talk a lot about Vue around here, from a five-part series on getting started with it to a detailed implementation of a serverless checkout cart

But, like anything new, even the basics of getting started can …

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Earlier this month on the Animation at Work Slack, we had a discussion about finding a way to let users pan inside an SVG.

I made this demo below to show how I’d approach this question:

See the Pen Demo – SVG Panning by Louis Hoebregts (@Mamboleoo) on CodePen.

Here are the four steps to make the above demo work:

1. Get mouse and touch events from the user
2. Calculate the mouse offsets from its origin
3. Save

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