September 2022 Frontend Updates: React’s Render Cycle, Four Forgotten JavaScript APIs, Islands Architecture and Animated CSS Borders
What’s new with frontend development this month? This time we highlight the React’s render cycle, four interesting and useful JavaScript APIs you may not know about, the new Islands Architecture and animated CSS borders.
August 2022 Frontend Updates: SOLID Principles in TypeScript, Software Design Patterns, Focus Styles and Individual CSS Transform Properties
This month we cover SOLID principles in TypeScript, software design patterns for React applications, focus styles and the new individual CSS transform properties.
Webhooks Using AWS Lambda and API Gateway
How to handle real-time updates from 3rd parties via webhooks with highly scalable serverless AWS Lambda functions behind API Gateway.
Unhidden Gems: 4 Highlights from Our Recent Ruby on Rails Sessions
Catch a glimpse of what we’ve recently covered on our Ruby on Rails team knowledge-sharing sessions. This is a selection of our latest exchanges on Monorepos, WebSockets, Rails 7 and Sidekiq.
July 2022 Frontend Updates: React 18 Optimizations, the JavaScript Proxy Object and ECMAScript 2022
This month, the Whitespectre Frontend Team covers the newest React 18 features and hooks to optimize performance, the Proxy object in JavaScript and the new ECMAScript 2022 specification.
Recursion vs Iteration: Different Approaches to Problem Solving
Code is a craft. You can solve the same problem in many ways, but some approaches are more readable, more maintainable, more robust and easier to extend. To illustrate this, Node.JS engineers Benjamin and Guillermo share and compare recursive and iterative approaches for a recent code challenge and custom DSL project.
June 2022 Frontend Updates: Color Palettes and Typography, Animation, Accessibility Semantics with ARIA and the Internet Explorer Farewell
Resources to get creative with fonts and color palettes, automatic UI animations and more complex tricks using trigonometry, a guide with the best practices for authoring ARIA by the W3C and some keys of the final farewell of IE.
Is Your Data Secure in React Native? Why You Need SSL Pinning
We're going to show you how to add an extra layer of security in a React Native application and how to test it to make sure everything works as expected. Excited? Then let's get into it.
May 2022 Frontend Updates: The State of CSS, Common Accessibility Issues, Text Wrapping and SVG!
The State of CSS as seen at Google I/O, accessibility hints from the 2022 WebAIM Million report and some text wrapping and SVG tricks and techniques.