The Naive Approach to Using Angular’s Async Pipe When I was still fairly new to doing frontend development with TypeScript and Angular, I was tasked with building a component in Lucidchart that would show up conditionally. This seemed like a great opportunity to familiarize myself with Angular’s async pipe. The…
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Ten short months ago we published a blog post showcasing how Lucid shares code between iOS, Android, and the web. In that post, we highlighted a new feature that executed a subset of our shared JavaScript using JavaScriptCore, a WebKit framework for helping JavaScript inter-op with native code. Today we’re…
Lucidchart is a highly performant web application. When editing a Lucidchart document, users expect a high frame rate and a responsive UI. To ensure a great experience, we track frame rate and UI stalls. This article describes how we leverage an existing library, Zone.js, to accomplish this. Prereq: The JavaScript…
If you’re new to JavaScript, you’ll come across various keywords, syntax sugar, and shorthands that make you scratch your head. This article introduces a few of the most common boolean expression tricks I encountered when I began coding in JavaScript. Truthy and falsy Chances are, you’ve seen something like this…
The perfect cross-platform solution. The Holy Grail. The El Dorado of app development. The dream that multiple languages have promised, but none have delivered. As we speak, there are likely a dozen cross-platform projects in the R&D phase—all with a couple years worth of funding and all being built with…
At Lucid Software, we strive to build desktop quality software that runs in the browser. Until recently, however, we had settled for using our own internal clipboard implementation rather than the system clipboard — limiting copying and pasting with external applications to just plain text. With customers clamoring for the…