Collective #489
React as a UI Runtime
An in-depth article by Dan Abramov that will help you understand the React programming model and runtime environment.
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The curious case of disappearing buses
Yui-Wah (Clement) Lee analyzes the mysterious case of disappearing buses in the real-time traffic information shown on Bristol's bus display boards.
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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which
Harry Roberts shares a DevTools tip to determine whether your assets would benefit most from an increase in bandwidth or a reduction in latency.
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Learn React App
A tutorial with hands-on exercises to get you started with React.
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WOWA
The Unplash for audio: free (do whatever you want) music that you can use in your projects.
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Animated Boxes
A demo showing how the stagger feature in anime.js works. By the folks of Staak.
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The Many Ways to Change an SVG Fill on Hover (and When to Use Them)
Cassie Evans shows the different ways of changing the color of SVGs.
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Lemon-JS
An accessible 3D rendering engine in JavaScript.
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useHooks
Easy to understand React Hook recipes by Gabe Ragland.
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Limiting JavaScript?
An article by Tim Kadlec where he discusses the controversial idea of limiting the amount of JavaScript a website can load.
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dailydevlinks
A new site for a daily dose of web dev related articles.
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Avatars
A pixel-art avatar generator in JavaScript for browsers and NodeJS.
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MiniSearch
A tiny but powerful in-memory fulltext search engine for JavaScript. Read more about it in this article.
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Playing with sound and three.js
A three.js sound visualizer made by Sarah Drasner.
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Let's talk JS ?: unit testing
A useful collection of tools for doing unit tests by areknawo.
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Free Font: US Blaak Bold
A sharp serif font with a glamorous look made by Unidaas. The bold style is for free.
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ASCII renderer
An interactive 3D world rendered in ASCII.
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Tubes
An interesting tubes animation made by soju22.
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Free Font: Gorod
A wide uppercase serif typeface by Ilya Zakharov.
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Custom Cursor Effects
A collection of five demos and a tutorial on how to create animated custom cursor effects for interactive elements like navigations, galleries and carousels.
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