Monthly Archives: May 2018

Brian Holt and the Frontend Masters team are putting on a free workshop today and tomorrow that is live-streamed for anyone that’s interested. This is super cool because, despite the fact that there is a mountain of articles about web development out there, there are only few that start with the basics in a manner that’s easy for beginners to follow. All of the materials are open source and available here as well.

I’ve been a fan of Brian’s work …

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As Sarah mentioned in her previous post about page transition using Vue.js, there is plenty of motivation for designers and developers to be building page transitions. Let’s consider mobile applications. While mobile applications are evolving, more and more attention is given to the animation experience, while the web pretty much stays the same. Why is that?

Maybe it’s because native app developers spend more time working on those animations. Maybe it’s because users say that’s what they want. Maybe …

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Interactive maps can both be functional and, when combined with data, tell a good story. Kiln released this data-driven map (make sure to hit the play button) to show the routes of every cargo ship moving about on the high seas in 2012.

Created by London-based data visualisation studio Kiln and the UCL Energy Institute

How something like this is created can be mind-boggling. Kiln has a service called Flourish that helps with the lifting and we recently shared Observable…

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Brad Frost thinks it’s:

1. Lack of portability
2. Context Switching
3. Flushing best practices down the toilet

In the spirit of good-ol-fashioned blog-and-response, here’s:

• Brian Muenzenmeyer’s response
• Micah Godbolt’s response

I’d like to point out that “CSS-in-JS” is an umbrella term, and that there are lots of takes on actual implementations of this. It’s possible to like one approach and not another.

My guess is we’ll end up with a split down the middle as a best practice someday.

When we write …

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