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When you’re putting together a build process for a site, it’s so dang useful to look at other people’s processes. I ran across Andrew Welch’s “An Annotated webpack 4 Config for Frontend Web Development” the other day and was glad he blogged it. If I was kicking off a new site where I wanted a webpack build, then I’d almost certainly reference something like this rather than start from scratch. At the same time, it made me realize how build …

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Nicolas Gallagher:

At Twitter I used the approach described here to publish the company’s SVG icon library in several different formats: optimized SVGs, plain JavaScript modules, React DOM components, and React Native components.

There is no One True Way^© to make an SVG icon system. The only thing that SVG icon systems have in common is that, somehow, some way, SVG is used to show that icon. I gotta find some time to write up a post that goes …

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Here are two ways to build a site (abstractly) that feel diametrically opposed to me:

1. Build a site as an SPA (Single Page App). The page loads a skeleton HTML page that executes JavaScript as quickly as it can. The JavaScript calls an API to get data, and then the page renders content. Navigation of the site is more API calls to get the data it needs and re-rendering.
2. Build a site as statically-generated. A build process runs in which

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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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