Archive for month: March, 2018

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Inspirational Website of the Week: Mustafa Çelik

Beautiful liquid effects and great typography. Our pick this week.

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Machine Learning-Driven Bundling. The Future of JavaScript Tooling.

Learn about the early implementations of zero-configuration build tools which are powered by machine learning to create the most optimal build. By Minko Gechev.

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GraphQL CSS

A blazing fast CSS-in-GQL library that converts GraphQL queries into styles for your components.

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How Fast Is Amp Really?

Tim Kadlec takes a closer look at how fast AMPs really are considering different contexts.

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Getting Started With The Web MIDI API

Peter Anglea shows how to interact with digital musical instruments using the Web MIDI API.

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Behind the Illusions – Impossibly High-Performance Layout Animations

David Khourshid’s fantastic presention on the tricky art of performant layout animations.

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Looperepool

Jaume Sanchez implemented this great tool for creating looperinos.

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Imaginary Soundscape

A great project: a web-based sound installation for creating soundscapes for Google Street View can now be tried online with any image.

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Design Your Week

David Khourshid’s smooth implementation of Gal Shir’s popular Dribbble shot.

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React-testing-library

Simple and complete React DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.

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Flow Field

A WebGL powered motion field webcam based particles system made by Dorian Lods.

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Designing for Research

Jeremy Wagner shares how he designed and developed an image quality survey which now goes into round two.

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Animating More Elements Along SVG Paths with JavaScript (Part 2)

Luis Manuel shows how to do more awesome animations with the PathSlider library.

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CSS: The bad bits (and how to avoid them)

Joe Forshaw shares his thoughts on what’s bad in CSS and how to keep sane when writing it.

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From Design to Code: Creating and Animating Images with CSS

José Rosário shows how he created an animated HTML/CSS tram.

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Caramella

In case you missed it: a new kind of blogging platform with over 80 styled templates for individual blog post looks.

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Imaging-heap

A command line tool to measure the efficiency of your responsive image markup across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios.

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Mesh Line Explosion

A fantastic Three.js demo by Jack Rugile.

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Deck: A Free Card-Style UI Kit

A cross-platform UI kit for designing card-based interfaces and media websites. By the team of InVision.

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Vue.js: The Cookbook

The beta release of a new, practical section of the Vue.js documentation.

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Super Mario World made only with CSS gradients

Alcides Queiroz shows how he created a short Super Mario World animation without any images or JavaScript.

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The Design Genome Project

InVision’s new project to find out what powers great design.

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Free Font: Particle

A clean and minimalistic font designed by Jeremy Vessey.

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Collective #400 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

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The regular Chrome DevTools panel is crazy powerful. It lets anyone dive deep into any page to study a site’s layout, CSS, and even HTTP headers if needed. You can do a lot with the DevTools…

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When it comes to picking a typeface, you can’t rely on gut alone

There are thousands of paid-for and free fonts available for creatives to choose from. However, when it comes to picking a typeface, you can't rely on gut alone. Making the right choice depends on function, context and a whole host of other factors. But how do you ensure you're going about it the right way? With these pointers, you won't go far wrong…

01. Think function

Always think about function as well as form. There’s no point finding a typeface that ticks the creative boxes, testing it and wowing your client with it, only to discover that it won’t actually work for the project because it lacks key technical features. Consider these from the start.

02. Follow foundries

Type should be in your consciousness, not something you only think about when you need to use it. Try following some foundries like Dalton Maag, Monotype, Hoefler & Co, Font Bureau and Commercial Type, on social networking sites, read typography blogs or simply keep your eyes peeled for good and bad examples of type you see out in the world. The more you notice, the more you'll know.

03. Test rigorously

Always test your type in ways that are relevant to the project. You don’t know if a typeface will work until you’ve seen it at the right size and tested whether the spacing works. You need a realistic idea of how it’s going to look – which you often won’t get from fake Latin.

04. Think effectively

Like any design decision, typeface selection needs to be the result of effective thinking. The fact that you like a typeface doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to convey the right brand messages to your target audience. You may convince your client, but the design won’t do its job.

05. Pair up properly

If you’re trying to pair two typefaces, start by defining what you want to achieve: are you aiming for harmony or contrast? Are you looking for complementary typefaces with corresponding curves, for example? Be careful not to let things get too uniform. Done wrong, this can be as inadvisable as double denim. To get it right, read our article on how to find the perfect font pairing.

The tips are taken from an article that originally appeared in Computer Arts issue 237.

Words: Anne Wollenberg

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Original Source: https://www.sitepoint.com/angular-forms/

Forms are an essential part of many web applications, being the most common way to enter and edit text-based data. Front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, often have their own idiomatic ways of creating and validating forms that you need to get to grips with to be productive.

Angular allows you to streamline this common task by providing two types of forms that you can create:

Template-driven forms – simple forms that can be made rather quickly.
Reactive forms – more complex forms that give you greater control over the elements in the form.

In this article, we’ll make a simple example form with each method to see how it’s done.

Prerequisites

You do not need to know all the details of how to create an Angular application to understand the framework’s usefulness when it comes to forms. However, if you want to get a better grasp of Angular, you can take a look at this SitePoint article series on building a CRUD app with Angular.

Requirements

We will use Bootstrap in this tutorial. It is not an integral part of an Angular application, but it will help us streamline our efforts even further by providing ready-made styles.

This is how you can add it to your application:

Open the command prompt and navigate to the folder of your project

Type npm install bootstrap@next. This will add the latest version of bootstrap to the project

Edit the .angular-cli.json file and add a link to the Bootstrap CSS file

“apps”: [
“styles”: [
“../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css”
]
]

We will not use the Bootstrap JavaScript file in this application.

Both template-driven Forms and Reactive Forms require the FormsModule. It should be added to the application in app.module:

import { FormsModule } from ‘@angular/forms’;
@NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule,
FormsModule
]
})

With that out of the way, we can proceed with the forms themselves.

Template-Driven Forms

Let us assume you want to create a simple form as quickly as possible. For example, you need a company registration form. How can you create the form?

The first step is to create the <form> tag in your view.

<form #companyForm=”ngForm”>

We need to modify this tag in two ways in order to submit the form and use the information from the input fields in our component:

We will declare a template variable using the ngForm directive.
We will bind the ngSubmit event to a method we will create in our component

<form #companyForm=”ngForm” (ngSubmit)=”submitCompany(companyForm.form);”>

We will create the submitCompany method in the component a bit later. It will be called when the form is submitted and we will pass it the data from the form via companyForm.form.

We also need a submit button, regardless of the content of the form. We will use a few Bootstrap classes to style the button. It is good practice to disable the button before all the data validation requirements are met. We can use the template variable we created for the form to achieve this. We will bind the disabled property to the valid property of the companyForm object. This way the button will be disabled if the form is not valid.

<button class=”btn btn-primary” [disabled]=”!companyForm.valid”>Submit</button>

Let us assume our simple form will have two fields – an input field for the name of the company and a drop-down field for the company’s industry.

Creating form inputs

First, we create an input field for the name:

<input type=”text”
class=”form-control”
name=”company-name”>

Right now we have a standard input with the type, name and class attributes. What do we need to do to use the Angular approach on our input?

We need to apply the ngModel directive to it. Angular will create a control object and associate it with the field. Essentially, Angular does some of the work for you behind the scenes.

This is a good time to mention that ngModel requires the input field to have a name or the form control must be defined as standalone in ngModelOptions. This is not a problem because our form already has a name. Angular will use the name attribute to distinguish between the control objects.

In addition, we should specify a template variable for the input: #nameField in this case. Angular will set nameField to the ngModel directive that is applied to the input field. We will use this later for the input field’s validation. This variable will also allow us to perform an action based on the value of the field while we are typing in it.

Now our input looks like this:

<input type=”text”
class=”form-control”
name=”company-name”
ngModel
#nameField=”ngModel”>

It is almost the same, but with a few key changes.

Validation

Let us assume we want the company name field to be required and to have a minimum length of 3 characters. This means we have to add the required and minlength attributes to our input:

<input type=”text”
class=”form-control”
name=”company-name”
ngModel
#nameField=”ngModel”
required
minlength=”3″>

Sounds simple enough, right? We will also need to display an error message if any of these two requirements are not met. Angular allows us to check the input’s value and display the appropriate error message before the form is submitted.

We can perform such a check while the user is typing in the form. First of all, it is a good idea to display an error only after the user has started to interact with the form. There is no use in displaying an error message right after we load the page. This is why we will insert all the error messages for this input inside the following div:

<div *ngIf=”nameField.touched && nameField.errors”></div>

The ngIf directive allows us to show the div only when a specific condition is true. We will use the nameField template variable again here because it is associated with the input. In our case, the div will be visible only, if the input has been touched and there is a problem with it. Alright, what about the error messages themselves?

We will place another div inside the aforementioned one for each error message we want. We will create a new div for the error message and use the nameField template variable again:

<div class=”alert alert-danger”
*ngIf=”nameField.errors.required”>
The company name is required
</div>

We are using the “alert alert-danger” bootstrap classes to style the text field. The nameField variable has the property errors, which contains an object with key-value pairs for all the current errors. The ngIf directive allows us to show this error message only when the ‘required’ condition is not met. We will use the same approach for the error message about the minimum length.

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Whether you’re migrating from the deprecated Parse.com (api.parse.com) or building a new application, the Parse Server community is alive and strong, and since Parse Server version 2.1.11, there is support for MongoDB 3.2 which makes MongoDB Atlas an ideal back-end for Parse Server based applications.

Existing hosted Parse / api.parse.com users can migrate their back-end using Parse’s Database Migration tool directly to MongoDB Atlas using a connection string like the following (with bold items replaced with your details):

[code language=”bash”]
mongodb://username:password@node1.mongodb.net:27017,node2.mongodb.net:27017,node3.mongodb.net:27017/applicationDbName?replicaSet=clusterName-shard-0&ssl=true&authSource=admin
[/code]

We will learn in this blog post:

How to deploy a MongoDB Atlas cluster
How to deploy the Parse Server (in our case we will show how to do so using AWS Elastic Beanstalk quick start, but updated to use the newest version of Parse Server)
How to configure Parse Server to connect to MongoDB Atlas
How to confirm connectivity

How to Set Up A New Sample Parse Server Application with A MongoDB Atlas Back End

Deploy MongoDB Atlas cluster
Consider sizing options but start small for a hello world style application. You can always scale later (MongoDB Atlas allows you to migrate to larger instances with no downtime to your database).
Register for MongoDB Atlas at mongodb.com/atlas
Build and deploy your first cluster (we’ll use a small M10 instance-sized replica set for our example, and deploy it into the US East region)

We’ll Create a user with at least readWrite on the applicationDbName database (or the user with readWriteAnyDatabase@admin which gets created automatically will do)

For testing purposes, we will open IP address to all IP addresses initially (0.0.0.0/0): Later we should leave only open to our application servers’ public IP addresses.
Choose where and how you want to deploy the Parse Server:
Many options are described here, some of which provide easier set-ups than others. AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Heroku are easy options.

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