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Defining and Applying UI Themes Using the Mimcss CSS-in-JS Library
15.11.2021
Theming UI refers to the ability to perform a change in visual styles in a consistent manner that defines the “look and feel” of a site. Swapping color palettes, à la dark mode or some other means, is a good …
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Other Looks at the Conditional Border Radius Trick
13.11.2021
Remember when Ahmad Shadeed wrote about that border-radius “toggle” he found in Facebook’s CSS? It was interesting! I covered it. A few weeks after that surge of linkage, a couple of articles came out digging into it a little deeper. …
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Interactive Rebase: Clean up your Commit History
12.11.2021
Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It's really a great addition to any developer's tool chain, because it lets you revise your local commit history—before you share your work with the rest of the team. Let's see what you can...
Easy Dark Mode (and Multiple Color Themes!) in React
11.11.2021
I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole “dark mode” thing a shot. With the huge ecosystem around …
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Don’t Snore on CORS
10.11.2021
Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that’s what blogging is.
The main …
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Quick and Dirty Bootstrap Overrides at Runtime
10.11.2021
Oh, Bootstrap, that old standard web library that either you hate or you spend all your time defending as “it’s fine, it’s not that bad.” Regardless of what side you fall on, it’s a powerful UI framework that’s everywhere, …
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React Suspense: Lessons Learned While Loading Data
9.11.2021
Suspense is React’s forthcoming feature that helps coordinate asynchronous actions—like data loading—allowing you to easily prevent inconsistent state in your UI. I’ll provide a better explanation of what exactly that means, along with a quick introduction of Suspense, and then …
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CSS Grid Can Do Auto Height Transitions
8.11.2021
Bonafide CSS trick alert! Nelson Menezes figured out a new way (that only works in Firefox for now) that is awfully clever.
Perhaps you know that CSS cannot animate to auto dimensions, which is super unfortunate. Animating from …
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Icon Glassmorphism Effect in CSS
8.11.2021
I recently came across a cool effect known as glassmorphism in a Dribble shot. My first thought was I could quickly recreate it in a few minutes if I just use some emojis for the icons without wasting time …
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Does the Next Generation of Static Site Generators Make Building Sites Better?
8.11.2021
Just ran across îles, a new static site generator mostly centered around Vue. The world has no particular shortage of static site generators, but it’s interesting to see what this “next generation” of SSGs seem to focus on or …
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Binance CEO: Avoiding Cryptocurrency Scams, Squid Game Token and Other Defi Risks
8.11.2021
The following article was written by CZ, Binance CEO & Co-Founder. DYOR, or do your own research, is a concept I think every investor should know about. It’s as close to a golden rule as anything in the world of crypto, but it applies more even broadly to anything you’re planning...
Favicons: How to Make Sure Browsers Only Download the SVG Version
5.11.2021
Šime Vidas DM’d me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this:
<!-- Warning! Typo! --<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" size="any"<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"
The attribute size is a typo there...
Yes, Design Systems Do Improve Developer Efficiency and Design Consistency
5.11.2021
One of the toughest things about being someone who cares deeply about design systems is making the case for a dedicated design system. Folks in leadership will often ask you to prove the value of it. Why should we care …
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How to Create an Animated Chart of Nested Squares Using Masks
5.11.2021
We have many well-known chart types: bar, donut, line, pie, you name it. All popular chart libraries support these. Then there are the chart types that do not even have a name. Check out this dreamt-up chart with stacked (nested) …
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enterkeyhint
5.11.2021
I only just recently learned the enterkeyhint attribute on form inputs was a thing! It seems like kind of a big deal to me, as crafting HTML form markup is a decent slice of a front-end developer’s life, and this …
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue
4.11.2021
Josh Collingsworth is clearly a big fan of Svelte, so while this is a fun and useful comparison article, it’s here to crown Svelte the winner all the way through.
A few things I find compelling:
One of the
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Scroll-Linked Animations With the Web Animations API (WAAPI) and ScrollTimeline
4.11.2021
The Scroll-linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition that allows us to link animation-progress to scroll-progress: as you scroll up and down a scroll container, a linked animation also advances or rewinds accordingly.
We covered some use cases …
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Chapter 10: Browser Wars
3.11.2021
In June of 1995, representatives from Microsoft arrived at the Netscape offices. The stated goal was to find ways to work together—Netscape as the single dominant force in the browser market and Microsoft as a tech giant just beginning to …
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Proxying Third-Party JavaScript as First-Party JavaScript (and the Potential Effect on Analytics)
2.11.2021
First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL:
addEventListener("fetch", (event) ={
event.respondWith(
fetch("https://css-tricks.com")
);
});
It doesn’t have any error handling or anything, but hey, it works:
Now imagine how …
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GUI Challenges
2.11.2021
I keep bookmarking Adam’s GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published! Fortunately, the homepage for them on web.dev is a nice roundup.
For example, a recent …
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