Pankaj Bagwan bagwanpankaj

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

What is your folder-structure preference for a large-scale Node.js project?

0: Starting from Rails

This is the reference point. All the other options are based off this.

|-- app
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- admin

	// gulpfile.js

	var gulp = require('gulp');
	var requireDir = require('require-dir');
	var tasks = requireDir('./tasks');

	gulp.task('sass', tasks.sass);
	gulp.task('serve:dev', tasks.serve.dev);
	gulp.task('serve:dist', tasks.serve.dist);