React with JSX is a fantastic tool for making easy-to-use components. Typescript components make it an absolute pleasure for developers to integrate your components into their apps and explore your APIs. Learn about three lesser-known React APIs that can take your components to the next level, and help you build even better React Components in this article. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/react-apis-building-flexible-components-typescript/
UXPin has recently launched a new feature called “Merge”. This tool aims to break through the chasms of design and development, all while improving the agility and quality our teams expect. This new technology may cause some rethink on how the whole design team and engineering team collaborates. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/bridging-gap-between-designers-developers/
A “dark pattern” is a deceptive UX pattern that tricks users into doing things they may not really want to do. In this article, Alvaro Montoro does a little experiment to find out how much privacy is taken away from users across three different browsers. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/autofill-dark-pattern/
Most animation libraries like GSAP and Framer Motion are built purely with JavaScript or TypeScript, unlike AnimXYZ, which is labelled “the first composable CSS animation toolkit”, built mainly with SCSS While a simple library, it can be used to achieve a lot of awesome animation on the web in a short amount of time and little code. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/composable-css-animation-vue-animxyz/
In this article, we’ll be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let’s go! https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/static-first-madlib-generator-portable-text-netlify-builder-functions/
Every once in a while, we publish freebies related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, every designer will be able to find their own use case and contribute to saving lives. Free for personal and commercial use. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/freebie-coronavirus-icon-set/
Debugging in CSS means figuring out what might be the problem when you have unexpected layout results. We’ll look at a few categories bugs often fit into, see how we can evaluate the situation, and explore techniques that help prevent these bugs. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/guide-debugging-css/
Have you ever struggled with testing cloud services locally? Specifically, have you ever struggled with locally testing an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS? In this article, Tom Hudson shares a quick overview of how easy it is to quickly set up your project to test locally before deploying to AWS. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/local-testing-serverless-api-gateway-lambda/
In this article, we’ll be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/build-expandable-accessible-gallery/
Many websites have some sort of search feature because it helps users navigate through their content easily. Implementing it the right way can be tricky and might not give a good user experience. In this tutorial, we will be integrating Algolia, a popular and powerful search service for the best experience on our Nuxt site. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/search-functionality-nuxt-app-algolia-instantsearch/