Lightweight Form Validation with Alpine.js and Iodine.js
20.1.2021
Many users these days expect instant feedback in form validation. How do you achieve this level of interactivity when you’re building a small static site or a server-rendered Rails or Laravel app? Alpine.js and Iodine.js are two minimal JavaScript …
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On-Scroll Letter Animations
20.1.2021
A small set of examples showing how letters can be animated on scroll.
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Life with ESM
19.1.2021
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.
Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuance, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open.
Before ESM, the situation for JavaScript …
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Netlify Edge Handlers
19.1.2021
Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think they change the nature of what Jamstack is and can be.…
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On Type Patterns and Style Guides
19.1.2021
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …
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Drawing 2D Metaballs with WebGL2
19.1.2021
An in-depth tutorial on how to code 2D visuals using WebGL2.
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Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL
18.1.2021
WordPress is a CMS that’s coded in PHP. But, even though PHP is the foundation, WordPress also holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. That philosophy establishes an implicit contract between the developers building WordPress themes …
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AnimXYZ
18.1.2021
There are quite a few CSS animation libraries. They tend to be a pile of class names that you can apply as needed like “bounce” or “slide-right” and it’ll… do those things. They tend to be pretty opinionated with …
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State of JavaScript 2020
18.1.2021
We rounded up a bunch of published 2020 annual reports right before the year ended and compiled them into a big ol’ list. The end of the list called out a couple of in-progress surveys, one of which was …
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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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