UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
Electron As we know Electron.js is built of Chromium and Node.js. Where Chromium is a full scale Web browser that even uses its own, independent JavaScript engine. Therefore each Electron.js application is essentially a separate Web browser and Web server installed on your machine – as many Electron applications you are running – as many…
10 years ago we, at W3C-style WG mail list, started discussion of giving CSS at least some flexibility. That was the time of semantic Web battles that showed up in “don’t use <table> for layout purposes” witch-hunt among others. The problem was that CSS did not offer any option to vertically align stuff inside browser…
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VS Code Uses 13% CPU When Idle Due to Blinking Cursor Rendering Discussions: Reddit and Hacker News Couple of citations: Assuming 1 million users of VS Code This blinking cursor will waste $3 million per year in electricity costs, and output 32,000 tons of c02 per year. 2150: “Grandpa, why did the ocean’s dry up?”…
Does front end developer need to know anything except of __HIS_FAVORITE_FRAMEWORK_HERE__ ? From Dmitri’s Pavlutin “The path of software development craftsmanship”
Nicholas Zakas is talking about basic principles of scalable [Web] application architectures: While this talk was made in 2013 it is still 100% applicable to modern Web and Sciter (desktop) applications.
Practical investigation on effectiveness of Virtual DOM (React) updates versus direct DOM updates (Vue). Clearly React takes significantly more CPU time for the task of updating 100 items list. That proves once again that there is no silver bullet in Web Front End design. Each task has its own optimal framework/architecture. “Ideal framework” should allow…
I have found Maintainable CSS site exceptionally useful for designing maintainable CSS systems. Modular and encapsulated: Styles don’t bleed or cascade without your permission. Any design requirements: Completely flexible to your needs. No tooling required: But you can use tooling if you want to. Easy to learn: Read the guides and see. Any size project:…
Disclaimer: the game is quite dangerous and may lead to alcoholism of participants even after first game. Play responsibly! Idea of the game: Players, in their turn, name random English word. To this word they add “JS” or “.JS” suffix and go google for it. If google will give JS library or framework with that…
