Morphing SVG With react-spring
26.8.2020
I’ve been intrigued by the morphing effect ever since I was a little kid. There’s something about a shape-shifting animation that always captures my attention. The first time I saw morphing left me wondering “ Wow, how did they do that?” Since then, I’ve created demos and written an article about...
What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 86)
26.8.2020
It wasn’t that long ago that Umar Hansa published a look at the most interesting new features in Chrome DevTools released in 2020. In fact, it was just earlier this month!
But in that short amount of time, Chrome has a few new tricks up its sleeve. One of the features Umar covered was...
Doom Damage Flash on Scroll
26.8.2020
The video game Doom famously would flash the screen red when you were hit. Chris Johnson not only took that idea, but incorporated a bunch of the UI from Doom into this tounge-in-cheek JavaScript library called Doom Scroller. Get it? Like, doom scrolling, but like, Doom scrolling. It’s funny...
Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics
25.8.2020
Jim Nielsen:
the datasets weren’t even close for me.
Google Analytics works by putting a client-side bit of JavaScript on your site. Netlify Analytics works by parsing server logs server-side. They are not exactly apples to apples, feature-wise. Google Analytics is, I think it’s fair...
Designing a JavaScript Plugin System
25.8.2020
WordPress has plugins. jQuery has plugins. Gatsby, Eleventy, and Vue do, too.
Plugins are a common feature of libraries and frameworks, and for a good reason: they allow developers to add functionality, in a safe, scalable way. This makes the core project more valuable, and it builds a community...
Awesome Demos Roundup #17
25.8.2020
A fresh roundup of the most interesting and creative web experiments from the last couple of weeks.
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Where Does Logic Go on Jamstack Sites?
24.8.2020
Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you can put logic.
Let’s look at a special example so you can see what I mean. Say you’re making a website for a music venue. The most...
This vs. That
24.8.2020
Here’s a nice site from Phuoc Nguyen, who I’ve noted before has quite a knack for clever sites. This vs. That pits different related concepts against each other as a theme for an article. For example, CSS has display: none;, opacity: 0;, and visibility: hidden; and they all, on...
Offering Options for mailto: and tel: Links
21.8.2020
I generally like mailto: links. But I feel like I can smell a mailto: link without even inspecting or clicking it, like some kind of incredibly useless superpower. I know that if I’ve got my default mail client set, clicking that link will do what I want it to do, and if I want, I...
A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline
21.8.2020
Nicky Meuleman, inspired by Cassie Evans, details how they built the anchor link hover on their sites. When a link is hovered, another color underline kinda slides in with a gap between the two. Typical text-decoration doesn’t help here, so multiple backgrounds are used instead,...
Let’s Make a Vue-Powered Monthly Calendar
21.8.2020
Have you ever seen a calendar on a webpage and thought, how the heck did they did that? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or even an embedded Google Calendar, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think. Especially when we use...
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
21.8.2020
leading-trim is a suggested new CSS property that lets us remove the extra spacing in every font so that we can more predictably style text. Ethan Wang has written about it — including how Microsoft has advocated for it — and that it’s now part of the Inline Layout Module Level 3 spec.
You’d use...