Quotes tagged ‘Frontend’

“In order to claim fluency in JavaScript, it’s important to understand how JavaScript’s native inheritance capabilities work. This is an often neglected area of JavaScript writing and learning, but understanding it can be dramatically empowering.”

— Eric Elliott, vimeo.com

“The answer is simple: front end development, like any specialized trade or spectator sport, is a lot harder than it looks. It isn’t until you’ve dipped your toes in it that you realize just how turbulent the waters are.”

— Ilias Ismanalijev, medium.com

“React is a great way to generate static HTML with a component-based UI. One of the biggest hurdles to working with React is the amount of boilerplate and build configuration it takes to get going. I wanted to make it dead-simple to start building static pages with React and without the need to insta…”

— Brent Jackson, jxnblk.com

“A Design Systems Ops is a person who is part of a design systems team, who needs to get into the designers’ shoes, and have a feel what their are trying to conceptualize. At the same time, Design Systems Ops need to understand the engineering requirements and define methods that will help shipping a…”

— Kaelig, medium.com

“What are the biggest disadvantages/difficulties of using React? Many people who are new to React and the ‘React Ecosystem’ really struggle with some of the concepts of state management in the context of a React app. Depending on one’s background, it can be a very different way of thinking, and this…”

— Ignacio Gutierrez, Leland Richardson, devnacho.com

“if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) { navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw.js'); };”

— Remy Sharp, remysharp.com

“Instead of implementing outbound link tracking ourselves, we used the autotrack plugin to do this for us. Autotrack comes with a set of plugins for tracking common user interactions. Theres a bunch of things it can help with, but the main one we wanted was the outboundLinkTracker plugin.”

— Chris Coyier, css-tricks.com

“The easiest way to send custom dimension data with your hits is to set their values on the tracker object. Since all hits sent from a tracker include all the key/value data it's currently storing, setting custom dimensions on the tracker will ensure those values get sent with all future hits.”

— Chris Coyier, css-tricks.com

“the Facebook codebase has over 20,000 React components, and that’s not even counting React Native”

— Dan Abramov, facebook.github.io