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If you hadn’t seen it, Heydon posted a rather clever flexbox layout pattern that, in a sense, mimics what you could do with a container query by forcing an element to stack at a certain container width. I was particularly interested, as I was fighting a little layout situation at the time I saw this and thought it could be a solution. Let’s take a peak.

“Ad Double” Units

I have these little advertising units on the design of this … Read article

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To make a sign in form with good UX requires UI state management, meaning we’d like to minimize the cognitive load to complete it and reduce the number of required user actions while making an intuitive experience. Think about it: even a relatively simple email and password sign in form needs to handle a number of different states, like empty fields, errors, password requirements, loading and success.

Thankfully, state management is what React was made for and I was able … Read article

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Front-end development relies on organization and solid communication. Whether you’re part of a team that builds large-scale sites or you’re flying solo with a handful of quality clients, there are many pieces and steps to get a project from start to finish. And that’s not just limited to the development phase of a project, either. Think about sales proposals, estimates, sign-offs, and approvals among many other things. There’s a lot that goes into even … Read article

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Andy Adams released a book for aspiring WordPress freelancers. It’s meant to take a lot of the guesswork and the roadblocks that many folks often hit when making the decision to fly solo and rely on WordPress development for a stable source of work and income.

Aside from being included in it (and Andy being an all-around great guy), I want to share the book with y’all because WordPress and freelancing are two topics I care deeply about, particularly because … Read article

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React 16.6.0 was released October 2018 and with it came goodies that spice up the way we can develop with React. We’re going to cover what I consider the best of those new goodies with examples of how we can put them to use in our work.

React.memo() avoids unnecessary re-rendering

There are situations where a component re-renders, even if neither its state nor its props changed. That adds up and can be an expensive operation.

Here’s an example of … Read article

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