On Auto-Generated Atomic CSS
15.1.2021
Robin Weser’s “The Shorthand-Longhand Problem in Atomic CSS” in an interesting journey through a tricky problem. The point is that when you take on the job of converting something HTML and CSS-like into actual HTML and CSS, there are edge …
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3 Approaches to Integrate React with Custom Elements
15.1.2021
In my role as a web developer who sits at the intersection of design and code, I am drawn to Web Components because of their portability. It makes sense: custom elements are fully-functional HTML elements that work in all modern …
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Proper Tabbing to Interactive Elements in Firefox on macOS
15.1.2021
I just had to debug an issue with focusable elements in Firefox. Someone reported to me that when tabbing to a certain element within a CodePen embed, it shot the scroll position to the top of the page (WTF?!). So, …
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Building an Ethereum app using Redwood.js and Fauna
15.1.2021
With the recent climb of Bitcoin’s price over 20k $USD, and to it recently breaking 30k, I thought it’s worth taking a deep dive back into creating Ethereum applications. Ethereum, as you should know by now, is a public (meaning, …
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How to Make GraphQL and DynamoDB Play Nicely Together
14.1.2021
Serverless, GraphQL, and DynamoDB are a powerful combination for building websites. The first two are well-loved, but DynamoDB is often misunderstood or actively avoided. It’s often dismissed by folks who consider it only worth the effort “at scale.”…
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Collective #644
14.1.2021
Front-End Performance Checklist * Bringing Spacer GIFs Back * Three-projected-material * 2020 JavaScript Rising Stars
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Dynamic, Conditional Imports
13.1.2021
With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:
import confetti from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/canvas-confetti';
confetti();
That import statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this:
(async ()
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Fading in a Page on Load with CSS & JavaScript
13.1.2021
Louis Lazaris demonstrates a very simple way of doing this.
Hide the body (with JavaScript) right away with opacity: 0
Wait for all the JavaScript to execute
Unhide the body by transitioning it back to opacity: 1
Like this:
CodePen…
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Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them
13.1.2021
In the not-too-distant past, even basic accordion-like interactions required JavaScript event listeners or some CSS… trickery. And, depending on the solution used, editing the underlying HTML could get complicated.
Now, the <details> and <summary> elements (which combine to form...
A (terrible?) way to do footnotes in HTML
13.1.2021
Terence Eden poked around with a way to do footnotes using the <details>/<summary> elements. I think it’s kind of clever. Rather than a hyperlink that jumps down to explain the footnote elsewhere, the details are right there next …
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Fixing Smooth Scrolling with Find-on-Page
13.1.2021
Back when we released the v17 design (we’re on v18 now) of this site. I added html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } to the CSS. Right away, I got comments like this (just one example):
… when you control+f or
…
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I Just Wanna Make Sure You Understand the WordPress.com Business Plan
12.1.2021
WordPress.com is where you go to use WordPress that is completely hosted for you. You don’t have to worry about anything but building your site. There is a free plan to get started with, and paid plans that offer more …
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