Collective #490
Inspirational Website of the Week: A Gauche de la Lune
A beautiful, clean design with many stylish details. Our pick this week.
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Rendering on the Web
Jason Miller and Addy Osmani explain the crucial terminology around web rendering.
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React Design Patterns and Best Practices
A book that will teach you how to build modular applications that are easy to scale using the most powerful components and design patterns that React can offer you right now.
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How To Architect A Complex Web Table
An illustrated guide to the table anatomy and how to build one, keeping in mind its future elaboration.
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Textblock
A JavaScript tool for adjusting size, leading, and grades to cast continuously responsive typography. It works over your current CSS as a progressive enhancement.
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A Very Brief Introduction to the Construction of Shaders
A practical reference for creating shaders. By webdva.
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FormVuelar
FormVuelar is a set of predefined Vue form components which are designed to automatically display errors coming back from your backend.
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Mixkit
Mixkit is a curated gallery of high-quality videos and animation, made by some of the world's most talented creators, with all content licensed for free.
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vue-examples
A collection of Vue examples for front end beginners.
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Vanilla WebGL Shader
A basic WebGL mouse move demo made without dependencies by Dave DeSandro.
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What Hooks Mean for Vue
Sarah Drasner explores the hooks concept for Vue in this great article.
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not-paid
A brilliant little script that adds opacity to the body tag and increases it every day until the site completely fades away.
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GitHub History
Browse the history of any file from GitHub with style. By Rodrigo Pombo.
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Three.js Butterflies
A beautiful butterfly experiment made by Kevin Levron.
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Free Font: Inter
A new version of the Inter UI font family which is now called Inter.
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rymd
In this demo by Hakim El Hattab you can move your mouse, or swipe on a touch device, to navigate through the stars.
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Nomadic Tribe - makemepulse
Experience "Nomadic Tribe", an interactive tale made by the folks of makemepulse.
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30 Seconds of Knowledge
A great Chrome extension that will help you become a better developer, one new tab at a time.
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Links that don't go anywhere should be buttons
An article by Chris Heilmann on when to use an anchor or a button.
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Read about the changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound.
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CSS-Tricks: Upcoming Conferences
A list of upcoming conferences related to front-end design and development.
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A Guide To CSS Support In Browsers
In this article, Rachel Andrew details the different types of browser support issues, and shows how CSS is evolving to make it easier to deal with them.
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this or that? component names: index.js or component.js
Brad Frost explores different ways of naming components.
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CSS Position Sticky - How It Really Works!
Elad Shechter explains how position: sticky works.
Third Attempt at a Fire Shader
Matthew Willox's demo where he experiments with a fire shader.
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Bubble Toggle
A fun bubble toggle made by Chris Gannon.
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SVG Filter Effects: Duotone Images with <feComponentTransfer>
This fourth article in our SVG Filter series will show you how to use feComponentTransfer to create a duotone filter effect.
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Inspirational Websites Roundup #1
The first edition of a new series that aims to showcase inspirational website designs.
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