#javascript features

[eminence-technology]

Eloquent JavaScript 4th Edition

JavaScript continues to be the most dynamic programming language for web development, evolving with each new edition of its core learning resources. Among the most renowned books for mastering JavaScript, Eloquent JavaScript 4th Edition stands out as a must-read for developers who want to refine their skills and understand the language at a deeper level. The latest edition not only updates the…

[scatterpatter]

absolutely love the incorrect quotes generator!! keep up the good work :)

I still can't believe something i made for shits and giggles for my friends like 5 years ago blew up the way it did and is still being used by people,,, waow ;-;

Thank u!!! Youve all been super sweet ;-;

[pk-heart]

l love my friday alone >>> farmers market, grabbing a coffee and a snack, eating it by the water, browsing shops, arts and crafts, movie night, going to bed early like yay

[communist-octoling]

Minecraft Java players when Mojang fixes a bug that only affects a small part of the game: OMG LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE!!1! MOJANG HATES JAVA CLEARLY BEDROCK IS THEIR FAVORITE!!!1!!!1! :( Minecraft Bedrock players when Mojang changes a perfectly fine part of the game to be more like Java for no reason for the thousandth time: Well, as long as its for parity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[switch]

mucking about with basic VN presentation Show Picture methods (displaying busts over backgrounds, changing expressions out, fading in or out, sliding busts, rotating busts and backgrounds for mock camera angles, timing to text) and at the moment i don’t necessarily see any reason i would need the premium vn bust plugin or any other plugin so long as i can, like, keep reasonable enough track of which bust is which picture ID and all. unless theres some other limitation i’m missing. i am a bit concerned about available event page length however considering each line of text takes up what would otherwise be a line of scripting and vice versa, especially when getting into the realm of having two or more busts in a scene at once, but i don’t think a plugin would necessarily significantly save me on event lines anyway. i suppose this is what controller events are for but i need to see how seamless that’s capable of being. scary….

[8techlabs-blog]

How to Balance Fixing Performance Issues and Adding New Features in Web Applications?

In today’s digital landscape, web applications are essential for business operations, marketing, and consumer involvement. As organizations expand and consumer expectations rise, development teams are frequently confronted with the difficult task of balancing two key priorities: addressing performance issues and introducing new features.

While boosting performance improves the user experience and increases efficiency, new features are required to remain competitive and meet market demands. Prioritizing one over the other, on the other hand, might have negative consequences—performance concerns can lead to a poor user experience while failing to innovate can result in a competitive disadvantage.

This blog delves into how to balance improving performance and introducing new features to web apps, allowing firms to satisfy technical and market demands efficiently.

Why Balancing Performance and New Features Is Crucial

A web application‘s success depends on both its performance and its features. However, relying entirely on one might result in imbalances that impair both user happiness and business progress. 

Performance:Performance is an important component that directly influences user retention and happiness. Users can become frustrated and leave if the application has slow loading times, crashes, or problems. Ensuring that your web application runs smoothly is essential since 53% of mobile consumers would quit a site that takes more than three seconds to load. 

New Features:On the other hand, constantly adding new features keeps users interested and promotes your company as innovative. New features generate growth by attracting new consumers and retaining existing ones who want to experience the most recent changes.

The dilemma is deciding when to prioritize bug fixes over new feature development. A poor balance can harm both performance and innovation, resulting in a subpar user experience and stagnation. 

Common Performance Issues in Web Applications

Before balancing performance and features, it’s important to understand the common performance issues that web applications face:

Slow Load Times: Slow pages lead to higher bounce rates and lost revenue.

Server Downtime: Frequent server outages impact accessibility and trust.

Poor Mobile Optimization: A significant portion of web traffic comes from mobile devices and apps that aren’t optimized for mobile fail to reach their potential.

Security Vulnerabilities: Data breaches and security flaws harm credibility and user trust.

Bugs and Glitches: Software bugs lead to poor user experiences, especially if they cause the app to crash or become unresponsive.

Strategic Approaches to Fixing Performance Issues

When performance issues develop, they must be handled immediately to guarantee that the online application functions properly. Here are techniques for improving performance without delaying new feature development: 

Prioritize Critical Issues:Tackle performance issues that have the most significant impact first, such as slow loading times or security vulnerabilities. Use analytics to identify bottlenecks and determine which areas require urgent attention. 

Use a Continuous Improvement Process:Continuously monitor and optimize the application’s performance. With tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, you can track performance metrics and make incremental improvements without major overhauls. 

Optimize Database Queries:Slow database queries are one of the leading causes of web app performance issues. Optimize queries and ensure that the database is indexed properly for faster access and retrieval of data. 

Reduce HTTP Requests:The more requests a page makes to the server, the slower it loads. Minimize requests by reducing file sizes, combining CSS and JavaScript files, and utilizing caching.

  5. Leverage Caching and CDNs:       Use caching strategies and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to deliver content quickly to users by storing files in multiple locations globally.

Why Adding New Features is Essential for Growth

 In the rapidly changing digital environment, businesses must continually innovate to stay relevant. Adding new features is key to maintaining a competitive edge and enhancing user engagement. Here’s why:

User Expectations:Today’s consumers expect personalized experiences and constant innovation. Failure to add new features can lead to customer churn, as users may feel your web application no longer meets their needs.

Market Differentiation:Introducing new features allows your application to stand out in the marketplace. Unique functionalities can set your app apart from competitors, attracting new users and increasing customer loyalty.

Increased Revenue Opportunities:New features can lead to additional revenue streams. For example, adding premium features or new integrations can boost the app’s value and lead to increased sales or subscription rates.

  4. Feedback-Driven Innovation:       New features are often driven by user feedback. By continuously developing and adding features, you create a feedback loop that improves the overall user experience and fosters customer                 satisfaction.

Read More: https://8techlabs.com/how-to-balance-fixing-performance-issues-and-adding-new-features-in-web-applications-to-meet-market-demands-and-enhance-user-experience/

[sanchoyo]

in the process of adding a lil journal/blog section to my website (I’ve been working on it on and off for abt as long as the dress up game) bc I do like the idea of long form writing that’s just personal lil updates beyond sticking them on here (bc all my blogs on here are divided by like…main blog for Personal stuff. Art blog for art. Comic blog. Fashion blog. And I want a place for all of that kinda jumbled together and also super rambly without needing a readmore. And to be able to Style it more. Cutely. Like these will be the extremely long directors cuts of My Ramblings)

I also kind of want to make a friends/sites I like section !! But none of my rly good friends on are on neocities I don’t think (as far as I know?? If u guys are hmu) and idk if im brave enough to list strangers sites I like bc I am. Shy… 🧍🏻but yeah that’s what I’ve been busy with!! Also comic stuff and holiday stuff coming up and being hectic means I prob won’t be on a ton so if im MIA that’s why ✌️

[worldwebtechno]

Key Features and Concepts of ReactJS

Learn the key features and concepts of ReactJS, including components, state management, virtual DOM, JSX syntax, and hooks. Understand how ReactJS simplifies building dynamic, efficient web applications

[kaiserin-belladonna]

Reblog and share and boycott.

Boycott ExpressVPN

[lukadjo]

Hey!

Would you mind looking at my tumblr in the themed form:

https://lukadjo.tumblr.com/

And reporting what you see?

[sdreatechprivatelimited]

Some useful features of react.js.

With React.js, you can quickly create user interfaces, particularly for one-page applications that need to be quick, interactive, and dynamic every time.

These features make React.js a flexible and powerful option for creating modern web applications.

[tawnysoup]

✨LOOP CRITTER SHIMEJI!✨

IT'S FINALLY DONE!!!

Finally, you can have a critter of your very own! Or 50 of them! Your call!

Looplet features a couple more traits than your standard shimeji, including some interactions, a hotspot (so you can pet them) and adjusted chances for various animations to play. Ultimately, they'll make doing anything on your computer 5x harder by running around and distracting you constantly :)

This shimeji contains vague spoilers for lategame In Stars and Time, but you can probably get away with using them if u haven't finished the game, since they are so so vague. Still, be mindful of this if you care about spoilers!

To use the shimeji simply download, unzip, make sure you have Javascript 8 installed, and doubleclick the jar file inside the folder! If you have any other issues running the shimeji, please consult the readme txt inside the folder.

ALSO! If you encounter any bugs while using the shimeji, please let me know! Editing the code was a bit nightmarish (there's so little documentation online) so it's a bit held together with duct tape and I wouldn't be surprised if anything went wrong. As a side note, yes the 'dragging' animation will delete one of the looplets if cloning is disabled, unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that one 😔

In any case… have fun, everyone!

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[researchbuzz]

A Roundup of Current ResearchBuzz / Calishat Resources

I’ve gotten a few new Patreons recently and decided to do a writeup of the resources I’ve made that are available to Patreons only. But then I thought, “Wait, I should also do a list of all the freely-available resources I’ve made too, because there’s a lot of those.” And finally my actual neurons kicked in and I thought, “I should do one post on ResearchBuzz for the free stuff and one post on…

[vanilla-voyeur]

Non-techical people making technical decisions is how you get 6× as many developer hired to write the frontend website code as the number of developers in the entire infrastructure team.

[jcmarchi]

Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/next-level-css-styling-for-cursors/

Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors

The cursor is a staple of the desktop interface but is scarcely touched by websites. This is for good reason. People expect their cursors to stay fairly consistent, and meddling with them can unnecessarily confuse users. Custom cursors also aren’t visible for people using touch interfaces — which excludes the majority of people.

Geoff has already covered styling cursors with CSS pretty comprehensively in “Changing the Cursor with CSS for Better User Experience (or Fun)” so this post is going to focus on complex and interesting styling.

Custom cursors with JavaScript

Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can use an element as our cursor, which lets us style it however we would anything else. This lets us transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.

In its most basic form, we just need a div that continuously positions itself to the cursor location. We can do this with the mousemove event listener. While we’re at it, we may as well add a cool little effect when clicking via the mousedown event listener.

That’s wonderful. Now we’ve got a bit of a custom cursor going that scales on click. You can see that it is positioned based on the mouse coordinates relative to the page with JavaScript. We do still have our default cursor showing though, and it is important for our new cursor to indicate intent, such as changing when hovering over something clickable.

We can disable the default cursor display completely by adding the CSS rule cursor: none to *. Be aware that some browsers will show the cursor regardless if the document height isn’t 100% filled.

We’ll also need to add pointer-events: none to our cursor element to prevent it from blocking our interactions, and we’ll show a custom effect when hovering certain elements by adding the pressable class.

Very nice. That’s a lovely little circular cursor we’ve got here.

Fallbacks, accessibility, and touchscreens

People don’t need a cursor when interacting with touchscreens, so we can disable ours. And if we’re doing really funky things, we might also wish to disable our cursor for users who have the prefers-reduced-motion preference set.

We can do this without too much hassle:

What we’re doing here is checking if the user is accessing the site with a touchscreen or if they prefer reduced motion and then only enabling the custom cursor if they aren’t. Because this is handled with JavaScript, it also means that the custom cursor will only show if the JavaScript is active, otherwise falling back to the default cursor functionality as defined by the browser.

const isTouchDevice = "ontouchstart"in window || navigator.maxTouchPoints > 0; const prefersReducedMotion = window.matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)").matches; if (!isTouchDevice && !prefersReducedMotion && cursor) // Cursor implementation is here

Currently, the website falls back to the default cursors if JavaScript isn’t enabled, but we could set a fallback cursor more similar to our styled one with a bit of CSS. Progressive enhancement is where it’s at!

Here we’re just using a very basic 32px by 32px base64-encoded circle. The 16 values position the cursor hotspot to the center.

html cursor: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIzMiIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzMiIgdmlld0Jve D0iMCAwIDMyIDMyIj4KICA8Y2lyY2xlIGN4PSIxNiIgY3k9IjE2IiByPSIxNiIgZmlsbD0iYmxhY2siIC8+Cjwvc3ZnPg==") 16 16, auto;

Taking this further

Obviously this is just the start. You can go ballistic and completely overhaul the cursor experience. You can make it invert what is behind it with a filter, you can animate it, you could offset it from its actual location, or anything else your heart desires.

As a little bit of inspiration, some really cool uses of custom cursors include:

Studio Mesmer switches out the default cursor for a custom eye graphic when hovering cards, which is tasteful and fits their brand.

Iara Grinspun’s portfolio has a cursor implemented with JavaScript that is circular and slightly delayed from the actual position which makes it feel floaty.

Marlène Bruhat’s portfolio has a sleek cursor that is paired with a gradient that appears behind page elements.

Aleksandr Yaremenko’s portfolio features a cursor that isn’t super complex but certainly stands out as a statement piece.

Terra features a giant glowing orb containing text describing what you’re hovering over.

Please do take care when replacing browser or native operating system features in this manner. The web is accessible by default, and we should take care to not undermine this. Use your power as a developer with taste and restraint.