Ordered lists have been an important part of web design for quite a while now. If we needed more control over the appearance of numbers, we had to add more HTML and/or JavaScript to do so until now. Counters in CSS save us much of that trouble. Challenges with ol...
There are two ways to remove a property from a JavaScript object: one is the mutable way of doing it by using the delete operator. And the second one is the immutable way of doing it by using object restructuring. Let us go through each of these: 1. The delete...
Over the past few months, I found a new use of the pictures that I have clicked while hiking. I started using them as Zoom virtual backgrounds. If you are anything like me and take a lot of pictures, it can be hard to decide which one looks good. And...
We are all used to using the script tag to load external JavaScript files in our HTML. Traditionally, the only workaround for having the scripts load after the HTML has been loaded was to move the script tags towards the end of the body. But JavaScript has come a long...
NFC or Near Field Communication is a short-range wireless technology that allows devices at a distance of less than 10cm to communicate. It is mostly useful when interacting with NFC tags. Web NFC became a thing very recently with Google announcing support for it in Chrome for Android. It is...
A progressive JPEG image is a JPEG image that is encoded in a different manner than a baseline JPEG. It loads in waves until a clear picture is loaded. This can improve the performance of a website as the image appears to be loading faster. The difference between Progressive JPEG...
The irony of time management productivity tips is that the people who need them the most do not realize that they do. There are too many productivity tips out there but the Pomodoro technique is probably the most discussed and used one. The reason for its popularity is that it...
React fragments were a feature released in React 16.2. They have been around for a while now but have been a relatively lesser used feature. Let us explore the what and why the feature exists. What are React Fragments? React fragments are a syntactic addition to React that allow wrapping...
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