Hot tips are spicy lil' nuggets related to web development and tooling that I share on my twitter account. I've logged them here to make them easier to find.
π₯ CSS Grid in 45 minutes. A video of my talk at Laracon is now live!
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π₯ git add --intent-to-add will track a file without adding any of itβs contents. This is helpful if you use git add -p to review changes before adding them
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π₯ Did you know CSS has a turn unit? Itβs often easier to turn something rotate(0.75turn) instead of doing the math to rotate(270deg)
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π₯ Style tags can be visible and editable. Kind of like codepen but not as good.
π₯ Create a zip of all changed files and their folders
git archive -o HEAD $(git diff --name-only HEAD)
Iβm using this to generate the what-changed-in-this-video βStepped Solutionsβ in my courses
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π₯ VS Code Better Comments gives you a few different styles of comments based on popular notations. Love love love this - thanks to @stolinski for showing me this.
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π₯ You can overwrite VS @code theme settings on a project-by-project basis. I'm using this to differentiate between backend and frontend codebases in my next tutorial. Command Palette β Open Workspace Settings
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π₯ All CSS background properties can take multiple values - helpful for layering colours, gradients and textures
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π₯ Slater your git add and git commit into a single command:
In your terminal, run :
git config --global '!git add -A && git commit -m'
Then just git ac "commit message"
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π₯ Array.from() takes a secondary map argument. Handy for creating and populating arrays of a specific length