Working with GraphQL is amazing, but also has complex security implications. Let’s dig into some essential protections for your API, from simple size limiting through depth limiting to query analysis.
Apollo GraphQL Blog
We recently implemented streaming server-side rendering and caching for Spectrum, here is how.
Zeit Blog
Seven months ago I quietly started working on a new project: not an open source or side project, but a product and a company. Say hello to Spectrum!
Why I use Atom as my editor of choice, even though other editors may be faster, simpler or better.
Have you been wondering how to create or contribute to your first open source project? This post is for you.
We can manipulate children in React using the power of JavaScript. Let's explore children in-depth and see how they can make our lives easier!
For the past year react-boilerplate has evolved beyond my ideas and code to being a true community effort, so I'm moving it to its own organisation on GitHub.
Danger checks that incoming PRs have the right style. She helps avoid cultural mishaps and common issues, and is an indispensable tool for any open source maintainer.
There are some best practices when working with component-based systems. Let's illuminate what they are and how 💅 styled-components can help enforce them.
Smashing Magazine
A microservice is a single, self-contained unit which, together with many others, makes up a large application. Let's write our first microservice in JavaScript!
What happened in 2016? This is my story, full of open source, travel and tweets. How did react-boilerplate, styled-components and Carte Blanche come to be?
The defacto standard for linting CSS code is stylelint. How can we leverage the large amount of existing rules and the vibrant ecosystem to lint CSS strings inside JavaScript files?
Sometimes, I have unproductive days, doing nothing except watching videos all day long. During a particularly bad week, I noticed a tiny thing that helps me stay on track.
Never seen that magic backtick styled.div`` notation? It's actually just JavaScript, no fancy transpiler needed! What that is, how it works and what it does? Let's find out!
Many people don't realise is that there's a difference between what's called "inline styles" and what's called "CSS-in-JS". Do you know?
For the third version of react-boilerplate the team spoke with hundreds of developers about how they build and scale their web apps, and I want to share some things we learned!
Smashing Magazine
PostCSS wird als Alternative zu Präprozessoren wie Sass oder Less immer beliebter. Anselm Hannemann und ich zeigen Ihnen, was PostCSS zu bieten hat.
Screenguide #30
If you’ve ever made a Single Page Application with a JavaScript framework, chances are you used routing. Routing lets you pretend that your application has...
npm has support for the scripts property in package.json — one of the most used, but also one of the most overlooked features of npm! Let's explore the power of npm scripts.
There has been a lot of talk recently about a new CSS preprocessor called PostCSS.1 PostCSS is a wrapper for plugins which exposes an easy to...
A few days ago, I got rid of Google Analytics on all of my websites, and moved all my analytics needs to a self–hosted instance...
For the new pgp.asc website, I wanted users to add themselves to the Hall of Fame without any intervention by me. Previously, they would send...
While making sharingbuttons.io, I was searching for a way to fade in a component once it has finished loading. Thankfully, React calls the componentDidMount function...
Specificity in CSS is a b*tch. If you have ever had to fix a nasty styling bug caused by an ID selector or unhealthy amounts...
I love using rem units for font-sizing on my web pages. It makes responsiveness much easier to implement, and you cannot get tangled up in...
I am a big fan of the Quantified Self movement. As a lover of statistics, being able to analyse my life is the best thing...
Toggling the visibility of content used to be quite tricky to do. Either you used some wonky CSS hacks with hidden checkboxes and labels, or...
I first came in contact with these events while revamping my personal website, http://mxstbr.com. The loading animation is an infinite animation that gets stopped as...
Welcome to my new blog! This is its fourth or fifth redesign. Know how many blog posts I have released up until now? One.
It all started when I tried out Sublime Text - and loved it. It’s brilliant features along with it’s great plugin ecosystem make this code...