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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. PWAs don’t require installation from the App Store or Google Play to the device to be used (like native apps do). You need a site for that.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Agustinus Theodorus. 2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

On the other hand, for simple key-value storage that also works on the web, there’s a cross-platform Google-developed first-party plugin package called shared_preferences , which has a Web-specific component called shared_preferences_web which uses NSUserDefaults , SharedPreferences or localStorage depending on the platform. In React Native.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. He loves the Jamstack, and his new book, Cut Into The Jamstack, teaches the reader how to build a software as a service app from scratch. Drew: The book literally walks the reader through building a software as a service app. written by Dom Habersack.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. The CMS itself is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which I like to term Content-as-as-Service (CaaS). It worked a treat without having 50 Google Docs flying all over the place. Enterprise features.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin. Fact magazine by Herb Lubalin. Popular graphic software like Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Sketch export files bloated by unoptimised elements and unnecessary metadata. Read More From The Series.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

The exponential proliferation of connected devices with varying software and technical capabilities has made it more and more difficult to cater web content to every single user. Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. If you use Google Fonts, Google Font Pairings can come in handy, too. Also, take a look at the other.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Managing and automating software deployment involves both tools and processes. Introducing Buddy, A Tool For Automating Software Deployment. The popularity of Git has given rise to a new generation of tools to manage the complexity of software deployments. Introduction To Continuous Integration, Delivery, And Deployment.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Firebase is application development software from Google that enables us to develop iOS, Android, and web apps. To get started, visit firebase.google.com and click on either the “Go to console” link in the top-right corner of your screen or the “Get started” button (ensure that you sign in with your Google account).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. However, monitoring is a crucial aspect of the development lifecycle which helps software teams move faster, prioritize efforts, and avoid serious issues down the road. Application Monitoring.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `@pehaa/gatsby-theme-wp-child`, options: { wordPressUrl: process.env.GATSBY_WP_URL, fonts: { google: [{family: "Rubik"}], }, }, }, ], }. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe. comments, forms or search). vf, yk, il).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

You could internally document them in a collaborative software such as Notion or Dynalist; or an online documentation like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper. Documenting guidelines for your organization is as simple as creating a set of accessibility guidelines. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. Drew: So if say I’m starting a new project, maybe I’m a startup business, creating software as a service product. You wrote the software, so what good is it me sitting over your shoulder and going, “Well, I think that’s safe”? I have no idea.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases. This is why there is a split between client and server CIDs in QUIC.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Just a couple of years ago one online media for software developers sent a digest to its subscribers by listing them in a Cc field. Check Bcc and Cc to not reveal any email addresses. It is not recommended, but sometimes Bcc is still used for sending small batches of emails.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

It means adopting common software development practices. Google has one , too. Automating documentation and improving documentation workflow fixes this. Automating Documentation From a High Level. What does automating documentation mean? Microsoft of course isn’t the only company that has a style guide. The Trouble With Style Guides.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I think that maybe the small counter argument here is if you Google, “How to do X with React,” you’re going to get half a dozen different approaches to doing that thing. So we enhanced and maybe over-stretched the high tech document system to behave like a software application. And I think that is valid. Drew: It was, yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). As such, many firewall vendors currently recommend blocking QUIC until they can update their software. Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default. Google Lighthouse. Implementation. Conclusion and Takeaways.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. There are some things like to their credit, Google sends an email every 30 days, although some people have said that they don’t actually receive them that frequently, and some people do.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apart from car dashboards and tech magazine covers of the 80s that still seem (fairly) familiar, you’ll find gems like four-buttoned remote controls from the 40s or retro-futuristic concepts, among them a smartwatch from the 80s that is essentially a shrunken PC worn on the wrist. Image credit: Control Panel ). Eye candy to get lost in.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

However, being an easy-to-use inclusive and versatile piece of software, WordPress comes with a plethora of options that are not necessarily utilized in each and every project. But if you still need convincing, Google penalizes slow websites. In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static Files. These files are only used client-side. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Two of the most active contributors to this project are Google and Microsoft and, when it comes to DevTools, they collaborated on a few interesting features that I’d like to go over now. You can read more information about this on Microsoft’s and Google’s documentation sites. CSS Layout Debugging Tools. Large preview ). Localization.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to get started with GraphQL, Eric Baer published two fantastic articles on yours truly Smashing Magazine: A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API and A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution Of API Design ( thanks for the hint, Leonardo! ). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Specific use cases may require image formats that support other features like: Software support: An image format may perform very well but is useless if browsers, CDN’s and other image manipulation tools do not recognize it. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains. WebP Tooling And Support.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Regulation. Consider switching to a host that uses renewable energy.

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