Who Are Design Systems For?
23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...
The Circle of a React Lifecycle
23.4.2019
A React component goes through different phases as it lives in an application, though it might not be evident that anything is happening behind the scenes.
Those phases are:
mounting
updating
unmounting
error handling
There are methods in each of these phases that make it possible to perform...
Netlify Functions for Sending Emails
23.4.2019
Let's say you're rocking a JAMstack-style site (no server-side languages in use), but you want to do something rather dynamic like send an email. Not a problem! That's the whole point of JAMstack. It's not just static hosting. It's that plus doing anything else you wanna do through JavaScript...
Add Authentication and Personalization to VuePress
23.4.2019
There are several advantages to using a static site generator such as VuePress. With VuePress, you can focus on writing content using markdown, and the VuePress application generates static HTML fi
Could Grouping HTML Classes Make Them More Readable?
22.4.2019
You can have multiple classes on an HTML element:
<div class="module p-2"></div>
Nothing incorrect or invalid there at all. It has two classes. In CSS, both of these will apply:
.module { }
.p-2 { }
const div...
Collective #510
22.4.2019
Svelte 3 * Mozilla WebThings * Tiny Mirror * CORS Tutorial * Inclusively Hidden * What is a Design System?
Collective #510 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
So, You Wanna Submit a Proposal to Speak at an Event
22.4.2019
You’ve been scouring the web for upcoming events. You’ve subscribed to Developer Avocados and you’ve bookmarked conferences.css-tricks.com. And now you’ve found a call for proposals (CFP) that you can’t wait to enter. You quickly fill out the online form and your pinky races towards the Enter...
Make Browsing GitHub Easier and Faster with Octotree
22.4.2019
GitHub is an amazing tool that many of us developers use on a daily basis. While GitHub has many great features, one thing that I've always found it to lack is browsing speed. They've got keyboard
React Starter: The Ways to Use React
22.4.2019
Before we can jump into learning more about the specifics of React, it's important to talk about all the ways we can use React.
This will give us a good mental overview to see how React can
Inclusively Hidden
19.4.2019
Scott O'Hara recently published "Inclusively Hidden," a nice walkthrough of the different ways to hide things on the web. Nothing is ever cut and dry when it comes to the web! What complicates this is that hidden begs the question: hidden for whom? Different answers to that have different...
Tabs: It’s Complicated™
19.4.2019
I've said before one quick and powerful thing you can learn as a front-end developer just getting starting with JavaScript is changing classes.
const button = document.querySelector(".my-button");
const element = document.querySelector(".content");
button.addEventListener("click", function()...
How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store
19.4.2019
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature...