Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
standardjs.com
Zero-configuration JavaScript linter and formatter that enforces one style across a project, with no config file to maintain.
jedwatson.github.io
Select control for React supporting multi-select, autocomplete and asynchronously loaded options; the demo now points to the current docs at react-select.com.
instructure-react.github.io
Live demo of react-select-box, an accessible select box component for React, with a link to its repository.
bharani91.github.io
Live demo of react-select-popover, a React component that replaces a select box with a popover list backed by a hidden multi-select field for form submission.
javier.xyz
Live demo of react-textselect, a React component that overlays an invisible dropdown on a run of text so the value can be changed inline.
jquense.github.io
Documentation for react-widgets, a suite of accessible React input components — dropdowns, comboboxes, calendars and number pickers — with installation and styling instructions.
github.com
JavaScript library wrapping the GitHub API for use in the browser, exposing repositories, issues and gists through both callback and promise interfaces.
medium.com
Reviews how React Hot Loader and React Transform preserve component state across reloads, why both grew complicated, and argues for proxying at the call site instead.
jlongster.com
Drives the frontend and backend webpack builds from a single Gulp setup, watching for changes and restarting the server with nodemon.
jlongster.com
Configures webpack as the build tool for a Node.js backend, using target node and the externals option to keep node_modules unbundled, plus sourcemap support.
jlongster.com
Presents monkey-hot-loader, a webpack loader that patches top-level functions on save so a running app picks up edits without a restart.
cerberus.readthedocs.org
An extensible Python library that validates dictionaries against a declarative schema, with custom rules and no hard dependencies.
listjs.com
A dependency-free JavaScript library that adds search, sorting and filtering to plain HTML lists and tables.
schematics.readthedocs.org
A Python library for describing data as typed models, then validating and reshaping it against them — an ORM type system without the database.
medium.com
A recommended 2016 front-end stack — React and Redux, ES6 through Babel, ESLint on the Airbnb config, webpack, Mocha and Lodash — with the reasoning for each pick.
medium.com
A glossary of eighteen UX design and research terms, each with a pronunciation guide, a plain definition and pointers to further reading.
smashingmagazine.com
An introduction to procedural content generation through WorldEngine, an open-source generator that simulates plate tectonics, erosion and climate to build whole planets.
flowxo.com
Flow XO, a hosted platform for wiring cloud apps into trigger-and-action workflows and for building chatbots on top of them.
github.com
A Python module for web mining, bundling crawling and scraping, natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis and visualisation.
github.com
A repository of design patterns and idioms implemented in Python, sorted into creational, structural and behavioural groups.
