Talking about useful APIs for your next pet project

Printful - Lets you upload designs, preview items, and then order almost any type of merchandise via API. Printful handles shipping and manufacturing

Mux Video- Handles all the complexity of working with video, just upload the file and Mux creates multiple versions of it and pushes to a CDN. Also supports live streaming

Lob - Lets you send postcards, letters, checks, and more with a few lines of code

Twilio - Already well known for SMS, but they've expanded their product range a ton and have a bunch of new features to play around with

Plaid - Makes it easy to connect to users bank accounts and takes care of security and regulations

Google Cloud AI - Could have put a few different companies here but I like Google's AI APIs because they give you $300 in free credit, plus most people already have a Google account so sign up is easy

Coinbase - Free public API for real time crypto price data via websocket, also historical data. With an account you can place orders if you wanted to make a trading bot

Open Secrets - Provides data on pretty much any politicians in Congress, voting records, fundraising, and lobbying

New trading bot anyone? Btc is at 30k😂

PS found this list on reddit

Did you know one of those website you visit in incognito mode actually removes jQuery and adopts Vue.js?

Interview with their Web developer

Regardless what you think, the dev work there is one of the toughest with the amount of users and graphical content they have to deal with.

Pure science 🔥💦

To those struggling with all that new Web dev noncence like React with those CSS in JS 🤷‍♂

Are you using arrow functions in your React apps?

OK, most of you used this approach and don't see why it can be debatable (although a few mentioned in comments several concerns, well done).

The reason I pointed this one out is because doing this often is a bad idea.

I failed to compile a list of articles and proper explanation, but all I want to point out here is that using arrow functions in React in this way can cause you rendering problems when your app grows. You should use it very carefully with paint flashing in browser to ensure you don't render unnecessary things.

The main issue is that a lot of react tutorials online teach you to do this and a lot of even senior frontend devs do that (to a point where it starts causing problems, trust me I've seen it too many times). The main explanation being: "well why not, it's documented that it's fine to do so here and here" .

I suggest researching why this is not always good (since I'm terrible in finding time to explain and write a proper post).

You can start with the below article that goes into explaining this one (but please go further in your research, testing it yourself is the best way):

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-arrow-functions-and-bind-in-reacts-render-are-problematic-f1c08b060e36/

Web Design trends in 2021

🤙🏿 Dark Mode
🔥 Blur and Noise
🌒 3D
🍙 B&W
🧊 Bold Typography

PS the most random list of emojis ever

▶ YouTube

The most promising is probably blurred UI from the above list.

Suddenly white theming has a chance 🔥

Cyberpunk buttons in pure css

https://codepen.io/jh3y/pen/PoGbxLp

I also been told that I should post more often with articles that I go through in my daily life (which was the whole purpose of this channel at first and not for you to enjoy good quality content guys 😂 yes, I keep telling @thefrontend was designed as a bucket for the articles I find, nothing more)

I now look a bit deeper into Vue with its 3rd version being absolute miracle in FE space.

Here is an article for myself to refer back to in development.

7 useful Vue patterns to use

https://medium.com/js-dojo/7-vue-patterns-that-you-should-be-using-more-often-b13cde4d2ae6

No valentine's pinky UIs for you today. Only dark neon, only hardcore.

Do send ❤️ to someone though, maybe they will become the one fixing your bugs, who knows

Microsoft breaks motion reality again in their ad

It doesn't even matter what they advertise, it's just pure awesomeness

https://vimeo.com/502414172

Whoever knows their motion designer, send here, I'll subscribe

Since when I started to admire Microsoft ads and not Apple's UI 🤔

Upd: looks like this is our boys

https://tendril.ca/work/

(thanks to @spacehamster69 for sharing)

The design process is a lie

Great article on reality of design processes in teams. Being frontend dev and sometimes taking generalist approach where you do dev & design I agree with the article that design is a team effort and testing is not an option.

This one is really worth your daily read.

👓 Read Time: 11 min
🔗 Link

Java's turn (25 years of Java)

"Java short for JavaScript 😂"
PS it's a joke (just in case)

By the way, those who are annoyed (like myself) that there is this hyped thing called clubhouse which is only for those priveleged ios users etc etc

The guy (developer at vk.com) just created android version using their API. Spent a day or two, that's what it takes.

If any of you want to use it go ahead, just apk to download

https://github.com/grishka/Houseclub/releases

Disclaimer: its not official, use at your own risk. If later clubhouse starts banning you (and me) because of this, don't tell me I didn't warn you.

Isn't it time for us developers to all drop IE support this year?

📌 Reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/lo3yaf/isnt_it_time_for_us_developers_to_all_drop_ie/

What do you think (poll below) ?