The new Angular TextArea component by Syncfusion is a robust and flexible user interface element designed to enhance multiline text input. It offers a wide range of features and customization options, enabling developers to create rich, interactive text areas for their web apps. This component supports advanced functionalities, including character count limits, resizing, placeholder text, and custom styling, making it an essential tool for improving user experience and boosting productivity in web development. Check out "" for all the details.
Other popular stories this week include "Learn Async Programming in TypeScript", "Should You Commit package-lock.json in an Angular Project?" and "What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers".
General
How to Make The Fluffiest Grass With Three.js
A breakdown of the best techniques to create realistic grass in Three.js without killing performance.
Authored by: Codrops
The difference between @ts-ignore and @ts-expect-error
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Authored by: stefan judis
Cypress Journey To Page Objects And Back
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Create a playful stop-motion crayon cursor effect with p5.brush.js and smooth animations.
Authored by: Codrops
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JavaScript
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JavaScript has been a popular programming language for almost 30 years now. Whether you're using it for web applications, mobile applications, backend services, or even desktop applications, you'll find that JavaScript has deep roots. Many of the lib...
Authored by: freeCodeCamp.org
Building a "shoutout" component in plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript
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Authored by: Christian Heilmann
TypeScript
Simple TypeScript playground via `node --watch`
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Authored by: Axel Rauschmayer
Learn Async Programming in TypeScript: Promises, Async/Await, and Callbacks
Async programming is a programming paradigm that allows you to write code that runs asynchronously. In contrast to synchronous programming, which executes code sequentially, async programming allows code to run in the background while the rest of the...
Authored by: JavaScript Kicks
What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers
Read this blog post if you are a JavaScript programmer and want to get a rough idea of what using TypeScript is like (think first step before learning more details): How TypeScript code is different from JavaScript code. How to run TypeScript code. How to edit TypeScript code in an IDE.
Authored by: Axel Rauschmayer
Angular
Should You Commit package-lock.json in an Angular Project?
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Authored by: In Plain English
Introducing the New Angular TextArea Component
It is a robust and flexible user interface element designed to enhance multiline text input. It offers a wide range of features and customization options, enabling developers to create rich, interactive text areas for their web apps.
Authored by: Syncfusion