Category: 'javascript'

Slightly enhanced sticky revealing footer

Andy Bell showed a nice little UI effect with his “sticky revealing footer”. But on some pages the experience was mediocre, so a quest began to improve it.

I was wrong about service workers

I was wrong about service workers. I wrongly assumed certain use cases for them. But I was missing out on them.

Updating my graph layout algorithm

Updating my graph layout algorithm based on new requirements and requests from the community

Authentication token management

Complex client-side applications require sophisticated solutions around authentication management and background refreshing.

Creating an auto-layout algorithm for graphs

Laying out a visual graph, like a state machine, so that it stays human-readable is one of the most fun challenges I have encountered. Here is how I did it.

Demystifying the component architecture

Our little UI components do more for us than we give them credits for. Their internals are more complex than we know.