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Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

—Anni Albers, On Designing

I recently wrote a post — that was shared here on CSS-Tricks — where I looked at ways to use Unicode characters to create interesting (and random) patterns. Since then, I’ve continued to seek new characters to build new patterns. I even borrowed a book about Unicode from a local library.

(That’s a really thick book, by the way.)

It’s all up to …

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I was recently mentoring someone who had trouble with the .reduce() method in JavaScript. Namely, how you get from this:

const nums = [1, 2, 3]
let value = 0

for (let i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
value += nums[i]
}

…to this:

const nums = [1, 2, 3]
const value = nums.reduce((ac, next) => ac + next, 0)

They are functionally equivalent and they both sum up all the numbers in the array, but there is …

The post Understanding the Almighty Reducer appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Part of the job of being a front-end developer is applying different techniques and technologies to pull of the desired UI and UX. Perhaps you work with a design team and implement their designs. I know when I look at a design (heck, even if I know I’m not going to be building it), my front-end brain starts triggering all sorts of things I know will be related to the task.

Let’s take a look at what I mean.…

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Like many, many others, I’m in the pool of leveling up my JavaScript skills and learning how to put React to use. That’s why Brad Frost resonated with me when he posted My Struggle to Learn React.”

As Brad does, he clearly outlines his struggles point-by-point:

• I have invested enough time learning it
• React and ES6 travel together
• Syntax and conventions
• Getting lost in this-land
• I haven’t found sample projects or tutorials that match how i tend to work

…

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