UI Dev Newsletter #68
Issue #68
2021-08-02
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There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/07/css-absolute-units/
Elad Shechter explains why CSS absolute units aren’t so absolute. -
Accessible Overflow
https://marcus.io/blog/accessible-overflow
Marcus Herrmann shares his research on containers that harbor content that is either horizontally or vertically too large for its parent and the current state of overflow scrolling affairs. -
What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Frontender
https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2021/my-first-css
Nathan Hardy shares three key concepts vital to understanding CSS, especially if you are a beginner. -
Aligning a Button Label Vertically
https://ishadeed.com/article/button-label-alignment/
Ahmad Shadeed explains how to achieve a perfect vertical alignment for buttons by adding a pseudo-element with zero width and a fixed height. -
10 Awesome JavaScript Shorthands
https://dev.to/palashmon/10-awesome-javascript-shorthands-4pek
Palash Mondal shares ten awesome JavaScript shorthands that will increase your speed by helping you to write less code and do more. -
Yarn 3.0 🚀🤖 Performances, ESBuild, Better Patches, ...
https://dev.to/arcanis/yarn-3-0-performances-esbuild-better-patches-e07
Maël Nison, a Yarn maintainer, highlights changes from a new major version of Yarn. -
JavaScript Quiz
https://javascriptquiz.com/
Marko Denic and Oliver Jumpertz created a quiz to check your JavaScript knowledge by having fun. -
Layoutit grid
https://grid.layoutit.com/
Quickly drawdown web page layouts with our clean editor and get HTML and CSS code to start your next project quickly. -
Self-promotion
You don’t need React for building websites
https://dev.to/starbist/you-don-t-need-react-for-building-websites-455f
I published an article about not using React to build websites, which triggered an interesting discussion last week.
Happy coding!