About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running … More about Vitaly ↬[1] In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the Core Web Vitals metrics. With some of the mistakes we’ve...
About The Author John Agbanusi is a passionate full stack developer, a developer at Meet Kumba and an active open source contributor to the free open source softwares. His major … More about John ↬[1] In this article, John Agbanusi explains how you can build a Node.js API from scratch by building and deploying an Ethereum Blockchain for decentralization. He also shows you a step-by-step process of integrating both the API and blockchain into a single API called...
About The Author Fortune Ikechi is a Frontend Engineer based in Rivers State Nigeria. He is a student of the University of Port-Harcourt. He is passionate about community and … More about Fortune ↬[1] In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to use Grommet as a UI library for React applications. We’ll use Grommet as a UI library of choice to create a pricing component, this would help us have a better understanding of how to use...
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] Catch up on what’s been cookin’ at Smashing and explore some of the most popular community resources featured in our newsletter over the past few weeks. Spoiler: there are also new workshops[2], front-end & UX audits[3] and truly smashing podcast episodes[4]. With the new...
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 ↬[1] 2020 was anything but normal. Consumers had their lives shaken up and many businesses experienced new challenges as well as opportunities thanks to the novel events of the year. As a result of all this upheaval and change that happened in 2020, the landscape is changing. Editor...
About The Author Nwani Victory works as a Frontend Engineer at Liferithms.inc from Lagos, Nigeria. After office hours, he doubles as a Cloud Engineer seeking ways to make Cloud … More about Nwani …[1][2] When it comes to building a conversational chat assistant that could be used at a small or enterprise level, Dialogflow would most likely be one of the first options that would show up in your search list — and why wouldn’t it? It offers...
Is web font delivery optimized?The first question that’s worth asking is if we can get away with using UI system fonts[1] in the first place — we just need to make sure to double check that they appear correctly[2] on various platforms. If it’s not the case, chances are high that the web fonts we are serving include glyphs and extra features and weights that aren’t being used. We can ask our type foundry to subset web...
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] GetX is an extra lightweight solution for state, navigation, and dependencies management for Flutter applications. In this article, we will be looking at its benefits, features, and how to start using it in Flutter applications. Flutter is one of the fastest ways to build truly cross-platform native applications....
In all likelihood, you’ve already discovered the benefits of WordPress, and worked with one or more popular WordPress themes or other design aids. Top WordPress themes typically bring both advantages and limitations to the table. As a consequence, a web designer is confronted with finding a theme that maximizes the former and minimizes the latter when addressing the task at hand. Finding “the best WP theme” among the large number currently on the market can be a daunting...
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] Developing a Shopify app and being able to sell it are two different things. While you might be a very skilled app developer, that’s not always enough for Shopify merchants to decide to install a newly released and unreviewed app on their sites. If you...