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Metaphors We Web By
1.2.2022
Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.
Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […]
The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it
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Notes on Reverse-Scrolling Columns With CSS Scroll-Timeline
31.1.2022
Lemme do this one quick-hits style:
Mary Lou published a quintessentially-Codrops-y demo called Alternate Column Scroll.
The scrolling effect is powered by Locomotive Scroll, which we’ve coincidentally covered before.
Bramus has been exploring native CSS scrolling effects
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The Relevance of TypeScript in 2022
31.1.2022
It’s 2022. And the current relevance of TypeScript is undisputed. TypeScript has dominated the front-end developer experience by many, many accounts. By now you likely already know that TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, building on JavaScript by adding …
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The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom
30.1.2022
Jim Nielsen’s mom couldn’t open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
“[…] well it can’t be a browser issue. It’s not like my Mom is using Internet Explorer!
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Git: Switching Unstaged Changes to a New Branch
28.1.2022
I’m always on the wrong branch. I’m either on master or main working on something that should be on a fix or feature branch. Or I’m on the last branch I was working on and should have cut a new …
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Demystifying TypeScript Discriminated Unions
27.1.2022
TypeScript is a wonderful tool for writing JavaScript that scales. It’s more or less the de facto standard for the web when it comes to large JavaScript projects. As outstanding as it is, there are some tricky pieces for the …
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Build, Ship, & Maintain Design Systems with Backlight
27.1.2022
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Design systems are an entire job these days. Agencies are hired to create them. In-house teams are formed to handle them, shipping them so that other teams can use them and helping ensure they …
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How to Cycle Through Classes on an HTML Element
26.1.2022
Say you have three HTML classes, and a DOM element should only have one of them at a time:
<div class="state-1"</div<div class="state-2"</div<div class="state-3"</div
Now your job is to rotate them. That is, cycle through classes …
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Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks
26.1.2022
Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern? Like where a colored section of a website ends and another differently colored section begins — not with a straight line, but angled zig zags, rounded humps, …
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How Do You Handle Component Spacing in a Design System?
26.1.2022
Say you’ve got a <Card /> component. It’s highly likely it shouldn’t be butted right up against any other components with no spacing around it. That’s true for… pretty much every component. So, how do you handle component spacing in …
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How to Make a Scroll-Triggered Animation With Basic JavaScript
25.1.2022
A little bit of animation on a site can add some flair, impress users, and get their attention. You could have them run, no matter where they are on the page, immediately when the page loads. But what if your …
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Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?
24.1.2022
You know that joke, “Two front-end developers walk into a bar and find they have nothing in common”? It’s funny, yet frustrating, because it’s true.
This article will present three different perspectives on accessibility in web design and development. Three …
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The CSS from-font Value Explained in 4 Demos
21.1.2022
I was doing my Advent of UI Components, and I stumbled upon the from-font value for the text-decoration-thickness CSS property. I was curious about it, so I did a little research and I think what I found (and learned) …
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Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)
21.1.2022
SVG is a great image format, so it's nice to able to use it in WordPress. If you're looking to be using SVG in WordPress. , we've got you covered here with all the best options.
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Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
21.1.2022
Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. These lifecycle callbacks can be used for many things, including making …
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A Complete Beginner’s Guide to npm
20.1.2022
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I remember vividly a period early in my coding career when I began to feel that things were changing away from what I knew, and headed towards a more complex set of tools and …
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What the Heck Does “npm” Mean?
20.1.2022
One of the things that makes this new, tooling-heavy era of front-end development so seemingly hard to understand at first is that, while we often call things by a singular name, they tend to be actually comprised of several different …
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What the Heck is the Command Line?
20.1.2022
Now that we know what npm stands for and have a super general idea of what it does and how it fits into web development, we ought to spend a little bit of time looking at the command line, because …
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What the Heck is Node?
20.1.2022
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Here’s what you need to know about Node.js (or simply Node) and how it relates to npm right off the bat:
Node is JavaScript, but as a server-side language.
This is possible because of
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What the Heck is a Package Manager?
20.1.2022
If you’re keeping score, so far in this npm guide we’ve developed a general understanding of what npm is—notably, that it stands for Node Package Manager. In the process, we’ve discussed the importance of the command line and how it’s …
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