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Chris’ Corner: Well Articulated Demos

I’m so envious of Paul Hebert’s Generating Random Mazes with JavaScript. Paul designed a random maze generator in some pretty easy to reason about JavaScript. It’s on CodePen, naturally. I’m envious because I love mazes. I’d draw them constantly as a kid. The square corner ones or weird wobbly organic ones or perfect circle ones. […]

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Chris Coyier
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Chris’ Corner: Our Eras Tour

Kristen’s classification of the four eras of JavaScript frameworks feels intuitively correct. A further simplification is essentially: 1. jQuery 2. Backbone 3. React 4. Next.js. Those were the big names from the eras and the similar technologies feel like obvious siblings. It’s easy to point at shortcomings, but overall I feel similarly positive: Overall, I […]

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Chris Coyier
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Chris’ Corner: There is a Turtle at the Bottom

If you were in charge of the curriculum at a college teaching web development, would you ensure the curriculum was regularly updated with bleeding edge technology? Or would you establish a slower moving curriculum with tried and true technologies? That’s tough. You can’t just flip a coin. It may be impractical to re-invent the curriculum […]

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Chris Coyier
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