Give your desktop a makeover with this new collection of wallpapers. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar for November 2020. A bit of colorful inspiration is always a good thing, don’t you think so? Especially in November when the days tend to be rather gray and misty in a lot of parts of the world. To bring a splash of color and some positive vibes to...
About The Author Rachel Andrew is not only Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, but also a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including … More about Rachel Andrew …[1] There is now a specification for native CSS masonry layout, as part of the Grid Layout spec. In this article, Rachel Andrew explains how it works with the help of a couple of demos you can try out in Firefox...
We’re talking about Eleventy. What is it and how does it fit into your Jamstack workflow? Drew McLellan talks to David Darnes to find out. In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Eleventy. What is it and how does it fit into your Jamstack workflow? I spoke to David Darnes to find out. Show Notes Weekly Update Transcript Drew McLellan: He’s a freelance designer, front-end developer, and writer based in Bristol, U.K. With over 11 years professional experience,...
About The Author Suzanne Scacca is a former WordPress implementer, trainer and agency manager who now works as a freelance copywriter. She specializes in crafting marketing, web … More about Suzanne Scacca …[1] Do you have a hard time throwing away mockups, logos and other content you’ve created for clients? The good news is that you don’t have to see rejected or unused designs as a sign of failure or waste. You can actually repurpose them and give...
About The Author Sam Richard, better known as Snugug throughout the Internet, is a developer with design tendencies and a love of building open source tools to help with both. … More about Sam …[1] Internationalization and localization is more than just writing your content in multiple languages. You need a strategy to determine what localization to send, and code to do it. You need to be able to support not just different languages, but different regions with...
About The Author Zara Cooper is a software developer who enjoys sharing what she learns as a developer with others. When she’s got time to spare, she enjoys reading a good book … More about Zara …[1] Netlify Forms is a form handling feature that receives submissions from HTML forms automatically. In this article, we’ll cover how to use it with Angular reactive forms and how to deploy the finished app on Netlify’s hosting platform, Netlify Edge. Creating the...
About The Author Kelvin is an independent software maker currently building Sailscasts — a platform to learn server-side JavaScript. He is also a technical writer and … More about Kelvin …[1][2] Ever had to switch your focus from your editor and to your terminal to see the results of your tests? This article will introduce you to Wallaby.js — a JavaScript productivity tool that supercharges your IDE by allowing you to get real-time feedback on your JavaScript tests...
About The Author Awesome frontend developer who loves everything coding. I’m a lover of choral music and I’m working to make it more accessible to the world, one upload at a … More about Chidi …[1] In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to use the Web Worker API[2] to manage time-consuming and UI-blocking tasks in a JavaScript app by building a sample web app that leverages Web Workers. Finally, we’ll end the article by transferring everything...
About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris …[1] It’s time for another monthly update! Join us as we share the latest news and highlight the things we have enjoyed reading over the past month. Whether you’re motivated to get started with creating artworks through code[2] or instead find yourself spending too much...
CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment & Delivery) is a modern method in the software development cycle that reduces the repetitive process of testing and deploying software. Github Actions is one of the services we can use to achieve CI/CD. In this article, Aleem Isiaka explains how you can deploy a basic NodeJS application to Heroku, automate and schedule a deployment to run at certain intervals of the day, and use other actions from the Github...