Nodejs & LessCSS and Grunt for your way to frontend development. Performance, optimization, and best practices.
How does Nodejs & LessCSS and Grunt make easy the FED? First off all LessCSS(Less is a CSS pre-processor, meaning that it extends the CSS language, adding features that allow variables, mixins, functions and many other techniques that allow you to make CSS that is more maintainable, themable and extendable.) changed the world of UI […]
Best practices to increase Performance your web site
Minimize HTTP Requests 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This is the […]
Best practices – Creating a composite component
Composite components are components that contain multiple components. They might be graphical assets or a combination of graphical assets and component classes. For example, you can create a component that includes a button and a text field, or a component that includes a button, a text field, and a validator. When you create composite components, […]
Best practices – Custom Component Implementation and points you should fire
createChildren() When is it called? The createChildren() method is automatically called by Flex whenever the custom component is added to a parent by the call addChild(customComponent). Keep in mind that unlike the other overridden methods in this article, there is no invalidate method associated with it. What is its purpose? To add other child components […]