“In cases where DOM manipulations would cause jank, this instead allows the user-agent to split up the work across several frames, yielding for script and user interactions. When the updates are finished processing, the result is displayed without jank.” |
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Learn how tech titans like Google, Facebook and others have dedicated themselves to missions and values that make them some of the most agile, disruptive companies on the planet. Also learn: - What inspired Tesla to quietly change its name
- Why teams at Amazon follow the “two pizza rule”
- How developers at Atlassian spend their time (hint: it’s not all coding)
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“As of Firefox 65, I intend to turn on our new cookie jar policy to block storage access from tracking resources by default on all desktop platforms.” |
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“A new alternative and entirely optional way to resolve dependencies installed on the disk, in order to solve issues caused by the incomplete knowledge Node has regarding the dependency tree.” |
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“What if installs were so fast they could happen in the background, just by using Node? What if every file in your dependencies could be guaranteed to be bit-by-bit identical to what’s on the registry? What if working on a new project was as simple as clone and run? What if your build tools got out of your way?” |
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A new DevTools profiler plugin uses React’s experimental Profiler API to collect timing information about each component that’s rendered in order to identify performance bottlenecks in React applications. |
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Functions 2018 is a community focused, single track, one day conference that moves away from the hype and focuses on the reality of serverless based solutions. It’s about fostering a community locally and helping all of us learn from each other as we embrace a new way of building applications. |  |
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Mozilla keeps churning out specialized web browsers. This time: an immersive web optimized browser. |  |
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Since it was first launched ten years ago, speed has been one of Chrome’s four core principles. Addy takes us on a performance journey looking back at Chrome internals. |
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Mariko dives deep into chrome’s handling of CPU, GPU, memory, and its multi-process architecture. |
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Typed JavaScript?  What kind of JavaScript typing solution do you prefer? Tell us why! Troy posits that EV certificates are dead. Their usefulness has now descended from “barely there” to “as good as non-existent” — Troy argues. |  |
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Moment.js is a fantastic time & date library with lots of great features and utilities. However, if you are working on a performance sensitive web application, it might cause a huge performance overhead because of its complex APIs and large bundle size. |
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“An under-appreciated concept in JavaScript is how objects and functions are references, and that directly impacts React performance.” |
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How do you know if a new technology is worth investing time into? |
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Chris shares alternatives to preserve aspect ratio in the web. |
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Nick shows a CSS-only solution to the floated label technique using the :placeholder-shown pseudo class. |
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