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I admit I’m quite intrigued by frameworks that allow you write apps in web frameworks because they do magic to make them into native apps for you. There are loads of players here. You’ve got NativeScript, Cordova, PhoneGap, Tabris, React Native, and Flutter. For deskop apps, we’ve got Electron.

What’s interesting now is to see what’s important to these frameworks by honing in on their focus. Hummingbird is Flutter for the web. (There …

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Working with data in React is relatively easy because React is designed to handle data as state. The hassle begins when the amount of data you need to consume becomes massive. For example, say you have to handle a dataset which is between 500-1,000 records. This can result in massive loads and lead performance problems. Well, we’re going to look at how we can make use of virtualized lists in React to seamlessly render a long list of data in …

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There is a sentiment that leaving math calculations in your CSS is a good idea that I agree with. This is for math that you could calculate at authoring time, but specifically chose not to. For instance, if you needed a 7-column float-based grid (don’t ask), it’s cleaner and more intuitive:

.col {
/* groan */
width: 14.2857142857%;

/* oh, I get it */
width: calc(100% / 7);
}

You could probably prove that the calc() takes the computer 0.0000001% …

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