There are so many examples of where web designers and developers can learn from game design and development. Video games have so many examples of unique, creative and interesting challenges and solutions in their design and development that we could learn from. This is definitely a case where a fairly standard technique used by game developers can be used for creative result on the web.
In a recent side project that I hope will become public fairly soon, I needed to center a left-aligned list of links inside the sides of the viewport, but also line-wrap in cases where the lines got too long (as in mobile). There are a few ways to do this, but I came up with one that was new to me. Here’s how it works.
Recently I was faced with the following problem: I had to build a layout that consists of several rows. In each row are two images with a fixed aspect ratio. The two images should have the same height and fill the entire row. The images’ aspect ratios vary from 16:9 to 3:4, so there are landscape images and portrait and square images.
When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are both reusable and responsive when there are nested components within components.
Introducing Partytown, a lightweight open-source solution that reduces execution delays due to third-party JavaScript by offloading third-party scripts to web workers, which run in background threads.
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