Issue #183 · October 12, 2020

The React Cheatsheet for 2020

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image”

Best 7 links of week #41, 2020

The React Cheatsheet for 2020

The React Cheatsheet for 2020

Everything you need to know about React in 2020: JSX, lists, events, state, basic hooks (useState, useEffect, useMemo, useRef), context, reducers and more! 🤯

Articles

A Complete Guide to CSS Media Queries

Media queries can modify the appearance (and even behavior) or a website or app based on a matched set of conditions about the user's device, browser or system settings.

Realistic CSS Art hacks

The secrets of creating realistic CSS art, it's simple! This article shows how to create some amazing can designs using only CSS and HTML.

Book of the week

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide: Distributed Data at Web Scale

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide: Distributed Data at Web Scale

by Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0 provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s non-relational design, with special attention to data modeling.