Understanding CSS Writing Methodologies

In this post we’re going to see what CSS writing methodologies are, some well known methodologies, and how they can be useful to us in optimizing our CSS code. Let’s start with the simplest question to get the ball rolling. What is a methodology?

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You’re Doing Feedback All Wrong

Managers are expected to give feedback. It goes with the responsibility of leading a team of employees. The idea is that by giving compliments and constructive criticism, they will correct errors and improve the performance of their employees. If they do this task well, their teams will excel.

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Sass Best Practices: Tips And Tools For Developers

Much like how jQuery revolutionized vanilla JavaScript, Sass has revolutionized vanilla CSS. Most developers who learn Sass agree that they’d never want to go back. Many also agree that the biggest problem with new developers is the way they use Sass, not Sass itself.

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Customizing Angular CLI 6 build — an alternative to ng eject

So your Angular 6 project just went a bit beyond TODO app and you have to customize your build configuration. The question is how? In Angular CLI 1.x (Angular 5) you had ng eject command for this, which was ejecting the whole underlying webpack configuration and allowing you to modify it as you please.

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Reasons to Love Jest: The Test Framework

We had Tape, Mocha, Ava, and now Jest. Let’s see what this is all about! What new app am I going to build today? I need something to write some Jest tests for...

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Building A Node.js Express API To Convert Markdown To HTML

Markdown is a lightweight text markup language that allows the marked text to be converted to various formats. The original goal of creating Markdown was of enabling people “to write using an easy-to-read and easy-to-write plain text format” and to optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

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The CSS Handbook: a handy guide to CSS for developers

CSS is often quickly dismissed as an easy thing to learn by developers, or one thing you just pick up when you need to quickly style a page or app. Due to this reason, it’s often learned on-the-fly, or we learn things in isolation right when we have to use them.

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