Collective #530

Chaos Design
A fantastic writeup of a recent talk Adam Morse gave at Intuit for their Front End Summit.
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How To Build A Sketch Plugin With JavaScript, HTML And CSS
Matt Curtis' tutorial where you'll learn how to build your our own Sketch plugins from scratch.
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Five Methods for Five-Star Ratings
Alfred Genkin explains different ways of creating a five-star rating component.
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Functional JavaScript: What are higher-order functions, and why should anyone care?
A great article on higher-order functions in JavaScript by James Sinclair.
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GraphQL: The Documentary
This documentary explores the story of why and how GraphQL came to be and the impact it's having on big tech companies worldwide.
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I didn't know that
Stefan Judis explains some interesting JavaScript facts and tricks.
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Making an interactive hoverboard game using JavaScript and web sockets
A really cool project by Charlie Gerard.
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Shaping up Shape
Amol Kumar shares the story behind the development of the first-ever prototype for Shape.
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Why is my webpack build slow?
Sam Saccone wrote this exploration into profiling options.
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How to recreate the GitHub contribution graph with Node.js and Google Sheets
A tutorial by Anne-Laure Le Cunff where you'll learn how to build a dynamic graph based on Node.js, Express, the Google Sheets API and Bootstrap.
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Read why Bradley Taunt thinks it's time to bring back HTML badges.
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LottaTools
Some useful PDF tools that run directly in your browser.
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ECMAScript 2019 and beyond...
Learn about all the new features that come with ECMAScript 2019.
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Musical Particles III
A great music visualizer made by Sean Free.
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What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
Dan Cederholm shares 20 things he has learned by co-founding Dribbble over the last 10 years.
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Zfont
A text plugin for the Zdog 3D engine. By James Daniel.
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I've spent 5 years writing a JavaScript framework on my own
Read about how Typescene, the robust front end library written in TypeScript, came to live.
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Forget about component lifecycles and start thinking in effects
Learn about the React useEffect
hook in this article by Sebastian De Deyne.

How to improve your mobile UIs by learning from personal touch patterns
Daniel Buschek explains what touch offsets are and highlights use cases that emerge from studying these offsets in detail.
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Git.WTF
A curated list of Git problems, frustrations, and tricks that can give you a solution in seconds.
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Free Font: SOFFA Sans
Ikea's free font made solely from sofas.
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