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Best 7 links of week #44, 2018
This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, patterns, and more…
Hooks are a new feature proposal that lets you use state and other React features without writing a class. They’re currently in React v16.7.0-alpha and being discussed in an open RFC.
Did you ever think about combining JavaScript with Machine Learning and Mortal Kombat? Well... somebody actually did and documented this marvellous idea very very well, you should have a look!
Learn how (and why) to make your app faster by optimizing JS, CSS, images/fonts and other things.
The New Stack spoke with Yunong Xiao, a software engineer at Netflix and design/architecture lead for the Netflix API Platform, about the company’s experience rolling their own in-house Functions as a Service capabilities.
GraphQL as a complete game changer to the way apps are built at PayPal. This article presents a real use case about the new GraphQL powered checkout experience on the PayPal website.
WebAssembly thread support has shipped in Chrome 70 under an origin-trial. This feature will make the web platform even more flexible and powerful!
by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher
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