Weekly newsletter of AmitMerchant.com

By Amit Merchant

Weekly newsletter of AmitMerchant.com - Issue #6

#2・ Oct 12, 2021

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Amit Merchant

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Hey everyone! In case you missed it, here are some hot new articles on AmitMerchant.com from the past couple of weeks.

Also, in case you don’t know, I’m also running a YouTube channel where I post micro-videos related to JavaScript, CSS, Git, and everything in between. I’ll link my latest video down below.

Feel free to subscribe to it if you like the content! I would really appreciate that! 🙂

Check if a PWA is opened as a standalone app or not

Learn how can you detect that a PWA is in standalone or browser mode. Handy if you only want to render things in standalone mode.

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Simple blinking cursor animation using CSS

The other day I was feeling a little nerdy (like all the cool kids) and so, I attempted to add this cool-looking blinking cursor at the end of my blog’s tagline like so.

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Always destructure your component props in React.js

While working with React.js components, there are two ways using which you can retrieve/access the component props.

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Dry running Composer update without actually updating dependencies

A simple trick to simulate the “composer update” command to check what will get updated when the command is actually run.

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🎥 Here are some latest videos from my YouTube channel

The Only VS Code Markdown Extension You Will Ever Need

Deep and Shallow Cloning Objects in JavaScript

Follow Your Favorite Website or Blog Right From Chrome's New Tab

🔗 And here are some interesting articles I read from around the web

How to Use TypeScript with React Components

How to use TypeScript to type React components: validate props, mark props as optional.

dmitripavlutin.com

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet

DNS issue itself, but failing DNS was the first symptom we’d seen of a larger Facebook outage.

blog.cloudflare.com

Custom styling radio buttons and checkboxes

My friend Scott O’Hara just published a fantastic article on how to customize checkbox and radio button styles.

gomakethings.com

Conditional Border Radius In CSS - Ahmad Shadeed

A really cool trick used by Facebook to render conditional border radius on their web version!

ishadeed.com

And finally, check how my blog's design evolved over time!

Amit Merchant

@amit_merchant

As they said, "Persistence is the key" :) https://t.co/hQpbRNJXmj

10:47 AM - 30 Sep 2021

Until next time! 👋

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