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Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”)
1.11.2021
A big heaping 19-minute bowl of not-too-hot, not-too-cold baby bear porridge website building from Rich Harris. I’ve certainly overheard more than my fair share of arguments about Single Page Apps (SPAs) vs Multi-Page Apps (MPAs).
Although, I will say it’s …
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So, You Want to Build an @mention Autocomplete Feature?
1.11.2021
We’re all familiar with the concept of autocompletion, right? You type something into a search box and it tries to guess what you’re looking for as you type, displaying suggestions, often below the cursor. While we’re used to autocomplete on …
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CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons
1.11.2021
Recently, while looking for some ideas on what to code as I have zero artistic sense so the only thing I can do is find pretty things that other people have come up with and remake them with clean and …
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Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently IV
29.10.2021
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, rather than leaving it to the browser — as long as you do it right. Deep dive!
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Create Your Own Automated Social Images With Resoc
29.10.2021
There has been a lot of talk about automated social images lately. GitHub has created its own. A WordPress plugin has been acquired by Jetpack. There is definitely interest! People like Ryan Filler and Zach Leatherman have implemented …
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Okhsv and Okhsl
28.10.2021
There is an old Russian fable where Okhsv and Okhsl are on a rowboat and Okhsv says to Okhsl, “What are the known shortcomings of HSL and HSV color pickers in design applications?” I kid, I kid. But really, what …
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Okhsv and Okhsl
28.10.2021
There is an old Russian fable where Okhsv and Okhsl are on a rowboat and Okhsv says to Okhsl, “What are the known shortcomings of HSL and HSV color pickers in design applications?” I kid, I kid. But really, what …
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Vite + _____
28.10.2021
Vite, “Next Generation Frontend Tooling” from Evan You, has been capturing a lot of attention. I’ve heard rave reviews from developers, even in private chats (you gotta try this!). Being from Evan, Vite works great with Vue, …
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Merge Conflicts: What They Are and How to Deal with Them
28.10.2021
Merge conflicts... Nobody likes them. Some of us even fear them. But they are a fact of life when you're working with Git, especially when you're teaming up with other developers. In most cases, merge conflicts aren't as scary as you might think. In this fourth part of our “Advanced Git” series...
Building an Angular Data Grid With Filtering
28.10.2021
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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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Sticky Definition Lists
28.10.2021
I ran across this 30 seconds of code website the other day, and they have a CSS section which is really good! The first example snippet I looked at was this “floating section headers” example, reminding me yet again how …
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How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element
27.10.2021
A look from Christian Kozalla on the <dialog> HTML element and using it to create a nice-looking and accessible modal.
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I’m attracted to the <dialog> element as it’s one of those “you get a lot for free” …
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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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On Browser-Specific URL Schemes
26.10.2021
We’ve covered URL schemes:
A URL Scheme is like “http://…” or “ftp://…”. Those seem like a very low-level concept that you don’t have much control over, but actually, you do!
I’d call it non-trivial, but developers can register new …
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In-Page Filtered Search With Vanilla JavaScript
26.10.2021
If you have a page that includes a lot of information, it’s a good idea to let users search for what they might be looking for. I’m not talking about searching a database or even searching JSON data — I’m …
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Userwell is for Managing Customer Feedback
26.10.2021
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Building products for users is a balance between your vision of what your product can do for them, and refining that vision based on their feedback. If you’re really a customer-focused company, you’re listening. …
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The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I eBook (PDF and EPUB)
25.10.2021
When I wrote the “book” The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I, I put “book” in quotes because there wasn’t anything terribly book-like about it. The only way you could read it was online, logged into this website, with an …
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The Semantics of Jamstack
25.10.2021
The past year has seen a healthy debate around the term ‘Jamstack’ as the definition gets stretched to include new use cases. I recently posted my take on a Jamstack definition in “Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where’s The Line?”…
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Can Include (a Certain HTML element within another Certain HTML Element)
22.10.2021
A single-serving website from Alexander Vishnyakov for testing if it’s valid to put any particular HTML element within another type of HTML element. Kinda neat to have a quick reference for this.
Some combinations feel fairly obvious: can you put …
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Exploring the CSS Paint API: Rounding Shapes
22.10.2021
Adding borders to complex shapes is a pain, but rounding the corner of complex shapes is a nightmare! Luckily, the CSS Paint API is here to the rescue! That’s what we’re going to look at as part of this “Exploring …
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