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CSS transitions are a simple animation framework that is built right into browsers. No need for Javascript here. They're...
Within a Flexbox layout, there are multiple CSS attributes that may affect a child's basis (the initial width before...
General hints on the DOM the root of the DOM is document custom elements inherit from HTMLElement. They need a...
When an AJAX request raises an exception on the server, Rails will show a minimal error page with only basic...
webpack is a very powerful asset bundler written in node.js to bundle (ES6) JavaScript modules, stylesheets, images, and other assets...
RubyMine comes with a nice way to grep through your project's files: The finder (ctrl + shift + f). Don't...
The goal is to get Jasmine specs running in a Rails project using Webpacker, with the browser based test runner...
In Ruby on Rails, all objects have a useful blank? method. It returns true for nil but also for empty...
Cucumber up to version 2 had a neat feature called Step Argument Transforms which was dropped in favor of Cucumber...
It is quite easy to migrate from CoffeeScript to ES6. You can use decaffeinate to convert your CoffeeScript source to...
Over the years we have tried several solution to have vector icons in our applications. There are many ways to...
To keep JavaScript sources small, it can sometimes make sense to split your webpack bundles. For example, if your website...
Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of...
We're always striving towards keeping our website's JavaScript as small as possible. If you're using webpack(er...
TL;DR Most web applications do not require action on this. SameSite=None (old browser default) will continue to work...
To avoid multiple versions of a package, you can manually maintain a resolutions section in your package.json. We recommend you...
This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker...
Webpacker is Rails' way of integrating Webpack, and version 4 has been released just a few days ago, allowing us...
See the attached link for a useful overview of modern (and classic) DOM API methods, like matches, contains, append, cssText...
This is a presentation from 2019-01-21. Summary We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
If your app does not need to support IE11, you can use most ES6 features without a build step. Just...
The Ace editor is a great enhancement when you want users to supply some kind of code (HTML, JavaScript, Ruby...
Accessing pseudo elements via JavaScript or jQuery is often painful/impossible. However, accessing their styles is fairly simple. Using getComputedStyle