Development React Native Video — handling fullscreen and controls on Android How to make a custom solution for fullscreen React Native Video on Android.
Development We don’t need no servers, we don’t need no source-control Let’s break this down into several categories that have seen major improvements over the years — hosting, CI/CD tools, Cloud infrastructure tools, marketing tools, and general cloud automation tools.
DevOps Firebase multi-site deployment with CircleCI A long time ago, even the simplest of build and deployment scenarios through a CI/CD pipeline were something that was out of reach for many developers, and smaller teams.
Design UX lessons learned from eCommerce projects In this article, I will present a general overview of some of the lessons and UX best practices that I’ve learned throughout my 4-year career working on eCommerce projects.
Development Multi-language routing in React What if you want to support a true multi-language routing, which will support route names in multiple languages and redirect your users to correct routes when you change languages?
Development Improving CSS performance and file size - an in-depth guide Follow this in-depth-guide and learn ways to improve CSS performance and file size.
General Digitalab.in — conference with a soul Can you think of the most relaxed conference where food is better than the speakers? Well, in those words organizers described Digitalab.in conference and it became a synonym for
Development Improve your CSS with these 5 principles We're going to look at the five simple and very effective principles that will take your CSS to the next level.
Development Optimizing images for the web - an in-depth guide Follow this in-depth-guide and learn different ways to optimize images for your website.
Development Draggable chat-heads in React Native How we’ve used panResponder to create draggable chat-heads which could be paired by overlapping one over another.
Development Implementing Skeleton Loading in React The idea and concept of Skeleton Loading or Skeleton Screens was introduced in 2013. in this blog post by Luke Wroblewski.
Development What we learned about PWAs and audio playback A word of advice for any future projects involving PWA — if it has anything to do with media playback, don’t bet on iOS. Think of PWAs as ProblemsWithApple.
Development Building Custom React Hooks React’s official documentation doesn’t cover custom hooks in detail as it covers the basic hooks, so the focus of this article is going to be primarily on building custom React hooks and best practices.
Development Javascript ES6: Destructuring with default values This is a short, but very useful code snippet for destructuring variables with default values (if the value is undefined). Very useful snippet for avoiding errors caused by undefined variables.
Development React: useEffect explained with lifecycle methods Sometimes, we'd like only a single of those lifecycle methods to run. The following cheat-sheet will help you achieve the "effect" you're looking form.
Design Simple ways to start illustrating There are simple ways of learning and practicing how to dissect real-life objects, and transfer them to paper (or a computer).
Development Avoiding the messy git history This article will cover one of the git-flow approaches, heavily based on git rebase, that will allow you to have a more streamlined git experience, especially when working inside a team.
Design What to do with large portions of text and other existential questions There are different ways to keep readers engaged for large portions of text, similar to speech techniques which add rhythm and emphasis.
Design How to bind shortcuts for Sketch in macOS and make your life easier Tooling has always been an important part of the design process. And using shortcuts in your favourite app can speed up your workflow considerably.
Development React Native SVG Image & ClipPath I’d like to share our experiences with using react-native-svg and clipPath in React Native. There are a couple of tutorials about this, but I found them kind of hard to understand or they don’t cover specifics of Android and/or iOS, and just focus on a single platform.
Development Circular Swiper using Pan Responder and Animated library How little is needed for something to break Android in React-Native.
Development React Native self-validating input How we managed to replace more than 90% of our input fields with this component throughout the project.
Development Quick and easy linting of PostCSS using Stylelint (in VS Code) There are a couple of problems we need to overcome in order to make Stylelint work with both PostCSS and Visual Studio Code and here is the step by step guide.
