Nick Taylor (nickytonline) is a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, and Developer Advocate with over 20 years in tech and a decade of open-source contributions. He shares practical insights through blogging, live streaming, and community-driven developer education.
161 articles from this blog
An overview of typescript-play, an enhanced open-source version of the official TypeScript Playground with more features and options.
Explains TypeScript's declaration merging feature with practical examples, including enhancing the global Window interface.
Introduces dom-chef, a library for building DOM elements using JSX syntax without React, highlighting its features and use cases.
A guide offering practical TypeScript tips, including migrating React apps, using unknown vs. any, and non-null assertions.
A developer shares a personal story about fixing a documentation error in an open source Gatsby plugin, emphasizing that all contributions are valuable.
Explains the CSS mask property with a practical demo for dynamically coloring SVG icons using CSS variables and JavaScript.
A developer shares career advice on taking risks, learning new technologies like React and TypeScript, and how it led to exciting roles in Barcelona and at Intel/McAfee.
Introducing scoped-style, a new CSS-in-JS library for React, Preact, Hyperapp, and InfernoJS, featuring scoped and global styling.
A developer reviews their 2018 resolutions, focusing on open source contributions, blogging, and side projects, while sharing their career move to Autodesk.
A challenge to implement a Redux store from scratch, inspired by Dan Abramov's video course on Redux fundamentals.
A guide to setting up Storybook for Preact projects, including CLI commands, webpack configuration, and replacing React dependencies.
A developer shares and explains their personal collection of Git aliases to streamline common version control commands and workflows.
A guide to installing and using Storybook for React component development, including setup and writing basic stories.
A developer creates a Battleship game board using CSS Grid and minimal JavaScript as part of a personal challenge to build CodePen projects.
A tutorial on creating a humorous poop notification component using CSS and minimal JavaScript, built as a CodePen project.
A collection of useful one or two-line JavaScript snippets for common tasks like cloning arrays/objects, getting unique values, and flattening arrays.
A tutorial on creating a simple 5-star rating component using CSS and Flexbox's row-reverse to overcome selector limitations.
A developer shares their essential Mac setup, including Homebrew, Spectacle, and Alfred workflows for productivity and development tasks.
A developer shares their 2018 resolutions focused on open-source contributions, blogging, learning, and using tools like VS Code and TypeScript.
A detailed guide to the author's personal Visual Studio Code setup, including essential extensions, themes, and tools for web development.
