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Working With Built-in GraphQL Directives
Directives are one of GraphQL’s best — and most unspoken — features.
Let’s explore working with GraphQL’s built-in schema and operation directives that all GraphQL spec compliant APIs must implement. They are extremely useful if you are working with a dynamic front-end because you have the control ..
Weekly News for Designers № 612
Microcopy – A collection of click-to-copy short text for use on your website.
Theatre.js – A GUI-based JavaScript animation library.
Dot HQ – Concerned about online privacy? Give this new web browser a try.
Motion One – This animation library promises “huge” performance while keeping a tiny file ..
Comparing HTML Preprocessor Features
(This is a sponsored post.)
Of the languages that browsers speak, I’d wager that the very first one that developers decided needed some additional processing was HTML. Every single CMS in the world (aside from intentionally headless-only CMSs) is essentially an elaborate HTML processor: they take c..
6 Tips for Collecting Customer Feedback (The Right Way)
Feedback is one of the most valuable resources for any business. Informative messages from your customers can tell you a lot about your company. They’re a way to check that your service strategies are paying off and a chance to learn which parts of your product need an upgrade.
Reviews and testimon..
Creating the Perfect Commit in Git
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow Tower on Twitter or sign up for the Tower newsletter to hear about the next articles!
A commit in Git can be one of two things:
It can be a jumbled assortment of changes from all sorts of topics: some lines of code for a bugfix, ..
The 15 Best Free eCommerce & Shopping Themes for WordPress
The design of your online store matters just as much as the quality of your products. As such, you need to make sure that your eCommerce and shopping theme has all the necessary features as well as an attractive design that will make your products look even more visually appealing while making your ..
Web Streams Everywhere (and Fetch for Node.js)
Chrome developer advocate Jake Archibald called 2016 “the year of web streams.” Clearly, his prediction was somewhat premature. The Streams Standard was announced back in 2014. It’s taken a while, but there’s now a consistent streaming API implemented in modern browsers (still waiting on Firefox…) a..
Front-End Dev Shortcuts in iOS 15
I was pretty stoked when Chris shared a way to “View Source” on mobile. Sure, it’s not the same as a built-in feature but it allows iOS users like myself a way to peek at a site’s code the same way folks on Android can by prepending view-source: to a URL.
I was curious what sorts of dev-related too..
How a Designer Might Create Timeless Designs
We’ve all seen examples of classic design – work that gets talked about for months, years, and even decades after it has served its initial purpose.
Even people who have no idea what the original design was even used for will discuss its beauty, simplicity, and timelessness.
What goes into creatin..
So many little design helper sites!
I had one of those little single-serving designer helper sites bookmarked the other day: getwaves.io. Randomized SVG waves! Lots of cool options! Easy to customize! Easy to copy and paste! Well played, z creative labs.
But then I saw the little link at the top of the page, that it was part of some..
