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Win a MASERATI MC Special Edition as Race-to-Earn Game ANTEFAME Celebrates MASERATI Partnership
17.2.2022
Start building your roster of rookies, vets, and rising drivers and be a part of an exciting game universe thanks to AnteFame, a race-to-earn (a play on “play-to-earn”) club with two main components: a motorsport fantasy league and a sim-racing league; and also get a chance...
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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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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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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What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
17.1.2022
Another year has passed and once again I’ve had the privilege of going through the Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives from the past 12 months to hunt down the front-end tools that readers found to be the most interesting during …
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How to Build Your First Custom Svelte Transition
14.1.2022
The Svelte transition API provides a first-class way to animate your components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions. By default, the transition directive uses CSS animations, which generally offer better performance and allow the browser’s …
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The Quest 2 VR Headset Had A Hell Of A Good Holiday Season
6.1.2022
Last holiday season the Quest 2 VR headset had gotten off to a rocky start, with reviewers praising the virtual reality headset’s tech, but panning its mandatory Facebook integration. This year, with the Facebook restrictions relaxed, Xbox and PlayStation consoles being hard to find, and...
How to Make a Component That Supports Multiple Frameworks in a Monorepo
5.1.2022
Your mission — should you decide to accept it — is to build a Button component in four frameworks, but, only use one button.css file!
This idea is very important to me. I’ve been working on a component library called …
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This $400 Keyboard Is For Gamers Looking For High-End Typing Hardware
4.1.2022
High-end enthusiast keyboards are marvels of engineering and design, with cases cut from bead-blasted aluminum, suspended gasket mounts, and convenient features like hot-swappable key switches. Gaming keyboards are all RGB lighting effects, sleek angles, shine-through keycaps, and eye-catching...
On Yak Shaving and md-block, a new HTML element for Markdown
29.12.2021
Lea Verou made a Web Component for processing Markdown. Looks like there were a couple of others out there already, but I agree with Lea in that this is a good use case for the light DOM (as opposed …
Spicy Sections
7.12.2021
What if HTML had “tabs”? That would be cool, says I. Dave has been spending some of his time and energy, along with a group of “Tabvengers” from OpenUI, on this. A lot of research leads to a bit …
The 'Dick And Balls' GameCube Controller Is NSFW
3.12.2021
Ludwig, formerly of Twitch and now of YouTube Gaming, won a small Among Us tournament a while back, and as his prize was offered the chance to receive a one-of-a-kind, hand-made GameCube controller.Read more
Oculus Quest Update Helps You Not Punch Children
2.11.2021
Do you find yourself constantly punching real-world children while playing Resident Evil 4 for the millionth time on your Oculus virtual reality headset? Well, Facebook—or, excuse me, Meta—has got you covered with Space Sense, a new feature heading to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 devices with...
Building an Angular Data Grid With Filtering
28.10.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Kendo UI makes it possible to go from a basic idea to a full-fledged app, thanks to a massive component library. We’re talking well over 100 components that are ready for you to drop …
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Testing Vue Components With Cypress
27.10.2021
Cypress is an automated test runner for browser-based applications and pages. I’ve used it for years to write end-to-end tests for web projects, and was happy to see recently that individual component testing had come to Cypress. I work on …
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Jekyll doesn’t do components? Liar!
8.10.2021
I like the pushback from Katie Kodes here. I’ve said in the past that I don’t think server-side languages haven’t quite nailed “building in components” as well as JavaScript has, but hey, this is a good point:
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Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components
7.10.2021
Blog posts that get into the whole “how to think like a front-end developer” vibe are my favorite. Michelle Barker nails that in this post, and does it without sharing a line of code!
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Tonic (Component Framework)
27.9.2021
I enjoy little frameworks like Tonic. It’s essentially syntactic sugar over <web-components /> to make them feel easier to use. Define a Class, template literal an HTML template, probably some other fancy helpers, and you’ve got a component …
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Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think
3.9.2021
We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to …
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'Playing Fighting Games On Keyboard Is Fine, Actually' Announces Local Weirdo
2.9.2021
Let me get this out of the way early. I am very new to fighting games. Like very, very new. I played a good amount of Smash Ultimate, even went to a local tournament once, but I was never like, y’know...in it. I regret to inform both you, and past me, that I am now, in fact, in it.Read more