In this article, we’ll start with a simple demo by ingesting and posting data to FaunaDB and then extend that functionality in a full-fledged app using Auth0, FaunaDB’s Token system and User-Defined Functions.
Right questions don’t simply roll off the tongue, but it’s a handy skill everyone can train. The following pieces of advice will help you to formulate questions that foster reliable answers from your users and clients.
Constructing an equivalent experience may mean changing the way you think about development and design, and potentially reevaluating your existing work. In this article, we’ll address common accessibility issues, and how to best go about improving …
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Getting a client or stakeholder to approve a design concept can be challenging. However, testing can make it easier, as well as ensuring you have the right solution.
If you’re a React developer who’d like to learn how you can start consuming APIs in your React applications, then this article is for you. Shedrack Akintayo explains what a REST API is and how to build a simple application that consumes a REST API by …
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In this article, based on my experience with creating a GPS and navigation application, I will show you how to create a mobile app using Expo and Firebase services such as Firestore, Firebase functions and Expo push notifications.
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June 19, 2020 - Have you always found the concept of z-index tricky? Thiru Manikandan shares a visualization tool that lets you change z-indexes of elements and see the result in real-time.
June 18, 2020 - Do you design and build emails? Mark Robbins collected some useful tools and resources that help you get the job done.
June 17, 2020 - How do Chrome extensions affect browser performance? A test among the 1000 most popular extensions gives insights into CPU consumption, memory consumption, and whether the extension makes pages render more slowly.
June 16, 2020 - Sandrina Pereira takes you step by step through the process of building a styled select element that gives you total styling control while being accessible.
June 15, 2020 - What do you need to keep in mind when it comes to the performance of CSS variables? Lisi Linhart takes a closer look.
June 12, 2020 - At the example of a page navigation with a complex scrolling behavior, Lea Verou explores how to use CSS variables and max() for hybrid positioning.
Meet Design Systems, a recent Smashing book in which Alla Kholmatova explores how to set up an effective design system to create great digital products. With common traps, gotchas and lessons learned.
React, Vue, or perhaps the lightweight Alpine.js? Whether you are an experienced JavaScript developer working with one of these frameworks, or just starting to learn, our authors have created some tutorials for you.
CSS Layout has been transformed over the past years. We have you covered with all you need to master this new world. If you want to understand the technical details, or learn how to use new CSS creatively, these guides can help.
Ensuring your site loads quickly is important. The subject touches almost every part of web design and development, from your choice of images to the performance of your web server. In this guide we bring together information that can help you build a fast site, and keep it fast.
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