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Removing Panic From E-Commerce Shipping And Inventory Alerts — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jul 9, 2020
When it comes to displaying shipping and inventory alerts on an e-commerce website, you have to be very careful about inciting panic in your shoppers. These words alone are enough to turn a pleasant shopping experience into a panicked and...
Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With Tauri And Vue.js — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jul 8, 2020
Technology makes our lives better, not just users, but also creators (developers and designers). In this article, I’ll introduce you to Tauri. This article will be useful to you if: We will look at how to build a native cross-platform application...
CSS News July 2020 — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jul 7, 2020
Things move a lot faster than they used to in terms of the implementation of Web Platform features, and this post is a round-up of news about CSS features that are making their way into the platform. If you are the sort of person who doesn’t like...
Differences Between Static Generated Sites And Server-Side Rendered Apps — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jul 2, 2020
JavaScript currently has three types of applications that you can build with: Single Page Applications (SPAs), pre-rendering/static generated sites and server-side rendered applications. SPAs come with many challenges, one of which is Search Engine...
Information And Information Architecture: The BIG Picture — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jul 1, 2020
We are living in a world exploding with information, but how do we find what is relevant to us at the time that we need it? I believe that good information architecture is key to helping us navigate through the mountains of data and information we...
Smashing Podcast Episode 19 With Andy Bell: What Is CUBE CSS? — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 30, 2020
Today, we’re talking about CUBE CSS. What is it, and how does it differ from approaches such as BEM, SMACSS, and OOCSS? I spoke to its creator, Andy Bell, to find out. Note: Listeners of the Smashing Podcast can save a whopping 40% on Andy’s Learn...
Firebase Push Notifications In React — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 29, 2020
Notifications have become a stable part of the web nowadays. It’s not uncommon to come across sites asking for permission to send notifications to your browser. Most modern web browsers implement the push API and are able to handle push...
Bootstrap 5: What's New About It and Release Date
designmodo.com Jun 29, 2020
Bootstrap, the most popular front-end framework built to design modern, responsive, and dynamic interfaces for professional design web pages, is currently undertaking a major update, Bootstrap 5. UPDATE: Bootstrap 5 alpha was officially released on...
Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 26, 2020
With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. A few of these projects lasted a year, some several months, but the majority for no more than a few weeks. Being completely absorbed for a...
Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 25, 2020
Django websites involve a lot of files. It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want...
A Practical Guide To Testing React Applications With Jest — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 24, 2020
In this article, I’m going to introduce you to a React testing tool named Jest, along with the popular library Enzyme, which is designed to test React components. I’ll introduce you to Jest testing techniques, including: running tests, testing...
How Web Designers Can Help Restaurants Move Into Digital Experiences — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 23, 2020
As much as I’ve always loved the experience of going out to eat and ordering in takeout, it’s very rare that I enjoy visiting a restaurant’s website. But I get it. The restaurant industry tends to run on very slim profit margins, so it’s hard to...
This logo of the year is hilariously blunt
creativebloq.com Jun 23, 2020
Almost six months in, it's fair to say that 2020 has already been quite a year. And if you're wondering what the logo of the year (that's a thing, right?) might look like, wonder no more – one designer has created a simple yet effective symbol that...
An Introduction To SWR: React Hooks For Remote Data Fetching — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 22, 2020
SWR is a lightweight library created by Vercel (formerly ZEIT) that allows fetching, caching, or refetching data in realtime using React Hooks. It’s built with React Suspense which lets your components “wait” for something before they can render,...
A Monthly Update On All Things Smashing — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 19, 2020
The entire Smashing team has been doing its very best to bring you live sessions with real experts — people with practical experience who love to share what they have learned throughout their careers. We organized Smashing Meets on three days —...
What Vitruvius Can Teach Us About Web Design — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 19, 2020
There’s no escaping the ancient masters. Their shadows loom large over philosophy, literature, architecture, warfare, and… web design? Believe it or not, yes. Although Plato infamously omitted CSS Grid from from the final draft of The Republic,...
Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 18, 2020
I’ve seen a lot of confusion online regarding Web development with Flutter and, often, it’s sadly for the wrong reasons. Specifically, people sometimes confuse it with the older Web-based mobile (and desktop) cross-platform frameworks, which...
Mirage JS Deep Dive: Using Mirage JS And Cypress For UI Testing (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 17, 2020
One of my favorite quotes about software testing is from the Flutter documentation. It says: On that note, this last part of the Mirage JS Deep Dive series will focus on using Mirage to test your JavaScript front-end application. Note: This article...
Smashing Podcast Episode 18 With Mina Markham: How Can I Learn React? — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 16, 2020
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about learning React. What’s React like to work with, and how can experienced developers get started? I spoke to Mina Markham to find out. Drew McLellan: She is a front-end architect,...
Which Video Conferencing Tools Are Most Accessible? — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 15, 2020
With us all suddenly working from home in the COVID era, most of us have had to make some quick choices from a huge variety of video conferencing and collaboration tools. But do all of these apps work well for everyone? If you have a co-worker or a...
Internationalization In Vue With The Vue I18n Plugin — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Jun 12, 2020
Building applications for people from different parts of the world comes with challenges like support for multiple locales and how to integrate it into your application. I remember the first time I faced this challenge, I had to build an...
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