Being Formidable:Talks and presentations that inspire the work of Formidables.Inside Formidable, we encourage collaboration and bold, well-researched ideas. Some ideas stick with you longer than others, and continue to inform you work, either…
React Inline Styles and the Future of CSSby Alex Lande, Front-end Engineer at FormidableWriting and maintaining CSS for large applications (and large teams) can be challenging. Teams often have trouble with brittle selectors, naming…
Victory.jsData viz for regular horses.by @boygirl, lead engineer on VictoryI’m not a designer. I’m a JavaScript developer. When I write CSS it takes me longer than it should, and often ends with someone more talented indulgently explaining how I…
Unit testing React Native with Mocha and EnzymeWorking in React Native has been an amazing experience. Coming from React, the workflow has been nearly frictionless. There has, however, been one question lingering: How the hell am I going to test this?
First impressions with the web’s latest presentation tool: SpectacleSpectacle, if you haven’t seen it, is another in a long line of HTML presentation tools, but this one has rocketed into popularity (which isn’t exactly common for something like presentation tooling). Since I had…
The Only Correct Script Loader Ever MadeA team here at Formidable was recently tasked with choosing a JavaScript loader in order…
Using React is a Business Decision, Not a Technology ChoicePreamble:React has become very popular among developers and there are lots of resources that speak to its technical merits. However, migrating to (or choosing) a new framework ultimately comes down to…
Anchors, Buttons, and AccessibilityOriginally published on May 8, 2014Accessibility is a foundational feature of the web. It is a direct reflection of a key tenet of the platform: the free and universal sharing of knowledge, unfettered by language, location, or disability…
