Collective #532












C532_blurry

Blurry

A great project that simulates depth of field with particles on a shader. Also, check out this demo of a blurry cat.

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C532_dash

BaseDash

BaseDash lets you manage and visualize your databases with a collaborative, cloud-based tool.

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Collective #532 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #531



C531_listcss

CSS Lists, Markers, And Counters

In this article, Rachel Andrew starts by looking at lists in CSS, and moves onto some interesting features defined in the CSS Lists specification — markers and counters.

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C531_trombone

Popup Trombone

A really awesome experiment by Matthew Rayfield where you can play a trombone by resizing the browser window.

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C531_texel

Texel

A proof-of-concept generative design toolkit made by Matt DesLauriers.

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C531_SEOmyth

SEO Mythbusting

A Google Webmasters video series hosted by Martin Splitt with the aim to clarify common misconceptions around technical SEO.

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Collective #531 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #530


C530_chaos

Chaos Design

A fantastic writeup of a recent talk Adam Morse gave at Intuit for their Front End Summit.

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C530_graphqldocu

GraphQL: The Documentary

This documentary explores the story of why and how GraphQL came to be and the impact it’s having on big tech companies worldwide.

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C530_shape

Shaping up Shape

Amol Kumar shares the story behind the development of the first-ever prototype for Shape.

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C530_gitwtf

Git.WTF

A curated list of Git problems, frustrations, and tricks that can give you a solution in seconds.

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Collective #530 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #529




C523_divi

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C529_lunacy4

Lunacy 4.0

Lunacy 4.0 is a full-fledged graphic editor with icons, photos, masked images and illustrations integrated and ready to use. It’s Sketch for Windows with design assets.

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C529_templates

CodeSandbox Templates

If you work with CodeSandbox, then your prototyping workflow will certainly benefit from the new option to create and use templates.

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Collective #529 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #528


C528_bound

Bounds.js

Asynchronous boundary detection for lazy-loading, infinite scroll and more. By Christopher Cavalea.

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C528_number

Numverify

A global phone number validation and lookup JSON API that supports 232 countries.

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C528_animapi

CSS Animation Worklet API

The first draft of the CSS Animation Worklet API that allows for running scripted animations without impacting the main thread.

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C528_imageformat

Using Basis Textures in Three.js

Learn about the new Basis Universal image format that was designed to produce very small file sizes and to be decoded on graphic cards instead of the CPU. An article by Ada Rose Cannon.

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C528_customprop

CSS Custom Properties In The Cascade

In this article, Miriam Suzanne takes a deeper dive into the ‘CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables’ specification to ask, “Why are they called custom properties, how do they work in the cascade, and what else can we do with them?”

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C528_trees

How accessibility trees inform assistive tech

Hidde de Vries takes a look at how “good” client-side code improves the experience of users of assistive technologies, and how we can use accessibility trees to help verify our work on the user experience.

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C528_statuscodes

HTTP Cats

In case you didn’t know about it: easy HTTP status code pages with meaningful cat images.

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C528_urlpage

URL Pages

URL Pages is a proof of concept that works by storing the entire contents of a web page in the URL.

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C528_gan

GANPaint Studio

GANPaint Studio is a glimpse into the future of creative tools. It provides semantic photo manipulation with a generative image prior.

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C528_synth

Learning Synths

Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.

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Collective #528 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #527



C527_extension

Exthouse

Exthouse is a tool powered by Lighthouse that provides a report about a web extension’s impact on web performance.

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C527_html

Writing HTML in HTML

John Ankarström explains why he rewrote his website in pure HTML, without using a static site generator.

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C527_gif

Freezeframe.js

This library pauses animated GIFs and enables them to animate on hover, click, touch or using a trigger function. A former jQuery plugin that is now built with modern JavaScript.

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C527_flappy

Flappy Bird

Charlie Gerard created this fun experiment where you can play the Flappy Bird game with browser windows. Remove the pop-up block to make it work.

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C527_photo

Photo Creator 2.0

With the new Photo Creator of Icons8 you can create diverse photos with thousands of masked models, AI-powered face swap, and background removal.

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C527_shape

Shape (Beta)

Shape is an icon and illustration tool where you can export creations as React components. By Meng To.

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Collective #527 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #526



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C526_servo

Servo

Servo is a modern, high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use. Created by Mozilla Research.

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C526_readme

readme-md-generator

A CLI that generates beautiful README.md files by suggesting you default answers from your package.json and git configuration.

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C526_blink

Never-Blink

A project where you can randomly connect to a player around the world and challenge him/her for a game of no blinking.

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C526_font

Free Font: Basier Mono

This modern and neutral monospaced font is based on the Basier font family and comes with a free regular style.

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C526_fullstack

FullStack

A React/ApolloGraphQL/Node/Mongo project boilerplate that Jason Werner open-sourced after his client decided not to pay him.

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Collective #526 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #525


C525_everylayout

Every Layout

Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS. By Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell.

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C525_rockgod

Rock God Pose

An fun interactive web app using Machine Learning and human pose estimation. Made by Ben Falchuk.

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C525_microfrontends

Micro Frontends

Cam Jackson describes a recent trend of breaking up frontend monoliths into many smaller, more manageable pieces, and how this architecture can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of teams working on frontend code.

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C525_prmise

Promise combinators

Learn about the new additions to the available promise combinators in JavaScript, Promise.allSettled and Promise.any.

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C525_city

Falling City

A great Three.js scene demo by Jon Kantner based on a background used in “The Battle Cats”.

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C525_HTMListheweb

HTML is the Web

An important reminder that HTML is what the web is based on, so frontend engineers should know it. By Pete Lambert.

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Collective #525 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #524






C524_layoutapi

The Layout Instability API

Philip Walton introduces the new Layout Instability API to help web developers detect when unexpected layout shifts are happening to their users.

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C524_rachel

Hello Subgrid!

Rachel Andrew introduces subgrid at the CSSconf EU 2019, with use cases, example code and some thoughts on where we might see Grid going in the future.

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C524_doodle

doodle-place

Doodle-place automatically animates your doodle and places it in an explorable 3D world of user doodles. Made by Lingdong Huang.

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C524_huijing

Using DevTools To Understand Modern CSS Layouts

Chen Hui Jing explains a variety of modern CSS layout techniques through live demonstrations via DevTools, and provides real-world use cases of how such techniques allow designs to better adapt across a broad range of viewports.

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C524_versionmuseum

Version Museum

In case you didn’t know about it: Version Museum showcases the visual history of popular websites and games that have shaped our lives.

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C524_pika

Pika CDN

A new CDN that was built to serve the 60,000+ npm packages written in ES Module (ESM) syntax meaning you can import packages directly without worrying about their module format or file location.

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Collective #524 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #523


C523_accessibility

Web Accessibility In Context

Be Birchall explains why it’s so important to prioritize accessibility among teams and why there needs to be more awareness raised among developers.

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C523_cssmindset

The CSS Mindset

An article by Max Böck where he lists the essential ideas behind CSS that help understand it better.

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C523_pinker

Pinker.js

A standalone JavaScript library for rendering code/class diagrams on your web page.

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C523_jellyfish

The Anatomy of a Jellyfish

A creative and technical overview of Maru, an interactive audiovisual website made in collaboration with Plaid for their new album “Polymer”. By Isaac Cohen.

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C523_themeui

Theme UI

Build consistent, themeable React UIs based on design system constraints and design tokens.

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C523_pipedream

Pipe Dream for Laravel

By giving Pipe Dream a minimum of input in form of a sketch/entity list, it will predict your application schema and feed it into a set of pipes. These pipes will generate all the files needed to get started with a new web project really quick.

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Collective #523 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #522





















C522_slidertype

Embla

An extensible low level carousel for the web, written in TypeScript.

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C522_px

Px

Px is a tiny 2D canvas framework for turn-based puzzle games.

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Collective #522 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #521


C521_cdn

Self-Host Your Static Assets

Harry Roberts outlines the disadvantages of hosting your static assets “off-site”, and shows the overwhelming benefits of hosting them on your own origin.

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C521_ui

Uibot

Uibot is an experiment on how far one could automate the generation of visual designs, what kinds of advantages it would lead to and what issues one would face.

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C521_creatives

Creative Machine (Beta)

Easily create one ad template and generate any number of dynamic creatives with one click. Free in beta.

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Collective #521 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #520



C520_Airtable

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C520_zdog

Zdog

A great designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG. By David DeSandro.

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C520_planets

Generative Planets

An experiment that uses canvas and shaders over the Foundation Universe Planets list mentioned in the Robot, Empire and Foundation Series, created by Isaac Asimov.

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C520_futuredark

The future is dark

Ilke Verrelst writes about what to keep in mind when designing a dark mode for your app or website.

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Collective #520 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #519




C519_subgridhere

Subgrid is here

Michelle Barker writes about the Firefox Nightly support for subgrid and provides an example.

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C519_typeface

Free Font: Portage

An adventurous and rugged slab serif built from a land and forest journal from the mid-50’s. Free for an email subscription.

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C519_biorender

BioRender

BioRender is a tool for creating and sharing beautiful, professional scientific figures.

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Collective #519 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #518




C518_TakeBackWeb

Take Back Your Web

“Own your domain. Own your content. Own your social connections. Own your reading experience.” —Tantek Çelik talks about how we can use IndieWeb services, tools, and standards to take back our web.

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Screen-Shot-2019-05-23-at-19.26.07

SCAR

SCAR is a deployment stack that make it easy for you to deploy a static website with a custom domain, SSL, and a CDN

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C518_animation

Animation Handbook

A free ebook that will teach you how to use animation to demonstrate abstract concepts, make products feel more life-like, and instill more emotion into digital experiences. By Ryan McLeod.

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Screen-Shot-2019-05-23-at-19.49.16

Font Kiko

Font Kiko is a pack of more than 700 Open Source icons suitable for many types of projects.

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C518_undesign

Undesign

A collection of free design tools and resources for makers, developers and designers.

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Collective #518 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #517



C517_tornis

Introducing Tornis

Tornis is a minimal JavaScript library that watches the state of your browser’s viewport, allowing you to respond whenever something changes.

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Collective #517 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #516



C516_subgrid

Subgrid

Learn all about the new subgrid value of CSS Grid in this MDN guide.

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C516_Ola

Ola

A smooth animation library for inbetweening/interpolating numbers in realtime.

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C516_handui

HandUI

A repo by Eugene Krivoruchko that contains examples of UI design for tracked hands in AR/VR featuring remote interaction.

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C516_icons

Flight Icons

Flight by Brodie Pointon is an animated icon pack built for iOS, Android and web (using the Lottie Framework) and video. Built on the back of Feather Icons by Cole Bemis.

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Collective #516 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Collective #515





C515_fontinspect

Fontanello

Fontanello is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that lets you display the basic typographic styles of a text by right-clicking it.

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C515_github

Introducing GitHub Package Registry

Simina Pasat introduces the GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code.

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C515_mailgo

mailgo

Mailgo substitutes all the mailto: links with the great looking mailgo modal. By Matteo Manzinello.

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C515_jsnew

What’s new in JavaScript

A Google I/O ’19 presentation by Mathias Bynens and Sathya Gunasekaran that gives an overview of cutting-edge JavaScript development techniques to build modern web and Node.js apps.

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C515_webprojectguide

The Web Project Guide

A phase-by-phase look at the web process from ideation to launch and beyond, providing context to the moving parts of a web project.

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C515_both

Why Not Both?

Varun Vachhar writes about how the future of new web design tools might look like.

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C515_animationreact

UI Animation in React

Donovan Hutchinson takes a look at a demo React app and explores how adding animations to situations when UI changes can result in a more polished experience.

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C515_svg

Svgbob Editor

In case you didn’t know about it: Convert your ASCII diagram scribbles into happy little SVGs.

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C515_FEEDI

FEEDI

Feedi simplifies how you handle RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds. You can add and keep track of your favorite feed data with a simple and clean REST API.

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Collective #515 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.