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Cool Hover Effects That Use CSS Text Shadow
13.5.2022
In my last article we saw how CSS background properties allow us to create cool hover effects. This time, we will focus on the CSS text-shadow property to explore even more interesting hovers. You are probably wondering how adding shadow …
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Collective #711
12.5.2022
Motion DevTools * Voby * State of CSS 2022 * Learn CSS Subgrid * Markdoc
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A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted!
12.5.2022
Braydon Coyer recently launched a monthly CSS art challenge. He actually had reached out to me about donating a copy of my book Move Things with CSS to use as a prize for the winner of the challenge — …
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COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
11.5.2022
According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the …
COLRv1 and...
Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language
10.5.2022
By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean:
A programming language is any set of rules that convert
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Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images
9.5.2022
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification …
Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images...
How to Serve a Subdomain as a Subdirectory
6.5.2022
Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com. But that platform falls short at blogging. So you think to yourself, “What if I could use a different blogging …
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Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site
4.5.2022
So, you’ve decided to build a blog with Next.js. Like any dev blogger, you’d like to have code snippets in your posts that are formatted nicely with syntax highlighting. Perhaps you also want to display line numbers in the …
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Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo
3.5.2022
If you’ve spent time looking at open-source repos on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that most of them use badges in their README files. Take the official React repository, for instance. There are GitHub badges all over the README file that communicate important...
Creating Realistic Reflections With CSS
2.5.2022
In design, reflections are stylized mirror images of objects. Even though they are not as popular as shadows, they have their moments — just think about the first time you explored the different font formats in MS Word or PowerPoint: …
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Creating the DigitalOcean Logo in 3D With CSS
29.4.2022
Howdy y’all! Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and maybe even then), you’ve undoubtedly heard the news that CSS-Tricks, was acquired by DigitalOcean. Congratulations to everyone! 🥳
As a little hurrah to commemorate the occasion, I wanted to …
Creating the DigitalOcean...
Collective #709
28.4.2022
CSS Toggles Explainer & Proposal * HyperUI * Web color is still broken * Progressively Enhanced Builds
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Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App
28.4.2022
In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, …
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Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties
27.4.2022
A while ago, Geoff wrote an article about a cool hover effect. The effect relies on a combination of CSS pseudo-elements, transforms, and transitions. A lot of comments have shown that the same effect can be done using background …
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nested Components in a Design System
26.4.2022
When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are both reusable and responsive when there are nested components within components.
Take the following “call to action” (<CTA />…
Avoiding...
Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators
22.4.2022
Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, …
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Collective #708
21.4.2022
JavascriptDB * The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles * Loaders * The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
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Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes
20.4.2022
In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity — and my ability to enjoy front-end development — than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow (and it …
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Making Mermaid Diagrams in Markdown
18.4.2022
Mermaid diagrams and flowcharts have been gaining traction, especially with GitHub’s announcement that they are natively supported in Markdown. Let’s take a look at what they are, how to use them, and just as importantly: why.
Just like you …
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Collective #707
14.4.2022
Ideal SVG exports * CSS Parent Selector * Lexical * CryptoFont * Just a Calendar
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