I've started looking at React again, and one of the concepts that was new to me was the virtual DOM. React isn't the only JavaScript framework to make use of a virtual DOM though. The idea is pretty neat: JS can make changes directly to the DOM, but that can be pretty slow, instead the … Continue reading Bi-Weekly Learning Update (53!)
Tag: front-end
Whether working alone, or as part of a team, wireframes are an important part of the development process. I've been working on some wireframes for new features on an existing project, so I used this opportunity to learn a bit more about them! What are they? Wireframes are usually fairly low-fidelity representations of how a … Continue reading Bi-Weekly Learning Update (52!)
Recently I went to my first ever dev conference: Conf & Coffee. I wasn't actually planning on going, but I saw a call for volunteers and realised that I was being silly by thinking that I was too much of a beginner to go to a conference- going to a conference as a beginner is … Continue reading Bi-Weekly Learning Update (40!)
I've been making more of an effort to attend more tech meetups and events for the past few weeks. One of the workshops I went to was a short course put on by Brainstation Vancouver: User Interface Design Principles. Brainstation puts on a lot of courses, and I'd only been to the space once before, … Continue reading Bi-Weekly Learning Update (30!)
