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 | Continue reading
Šime Vidas DM'd me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this: | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
Steve Ruiz calls this post an "extra-obscure edition of design tool micro-UX," but I find it fascinating! If you select a bunch of elements in a design | Continue reading
The Scroll-linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition that allows us to link animation-progress to scroll-progress: as you | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL: addEventListener("fetch", (event) => { event.respondWith( | Continue reading
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! | Continue reading
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles! Most | Continue reading
High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had | Continue reading
There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don't mind. I wrote my | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
There’s no reason a composition box has to be a dull text area. You can mention another person, a channel, a file, or some other queryable object using triggers, such as the @ or # characters. | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 “Advan … | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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, | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
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! | Continue reading
I only half-jokingly refer to the CSS-in-JS world as CSS-in-React. Many of the libraries listed below theoretically work in non-React situations — they | Continue reading
We're going to create a contact form with Next.js and Netlify that displays a confirmation screen and features enhanced spam detection. Next.js is a | Continue reading
Do you know what to use the @ sign for something other than email addresses and Twitter handles? I do! — Pawel Grzybek notes how some old physical | Continue reading
No matter what stage you’re at as a developer, the tasks we complete—whether big or small—make a huge impact in our personal and professional growth. | Continue reading
I didn't realize the support for @supports determining selector support was so good! I usually think of @supports as a way to test for property: value | Continue reading
Hey folks! Elad reached out to me to show me his new CSS reset project called the-new-css-reset. It’s quite interesting! I thought a neat way to share it | Continue reading
We aren’t supposed to be doing any sort of decision-making based on browser User-Agent Strings. But, ya know, collectively, we do. Karl Dubost notes that | Continue reading
I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of | Continue reading
I love CSS Grid. I love how, with just a few lines of code, we can achieve fully responsive grid layouts, often without any media queries at all. I’m | Continue reading
One way to work with Custom Properties is to think of them as design tokens. Colors, spacings, fonts, and whatnot. You set them at the root of the page | Continue reading
As someone just sittin' back watching CSS evolve, it feels like we're at one of the hottest moments of innovation in CSS history. It was really something | Continue reading
Which new framework should I learn this year? Is it time to ditch my CMS? What tools should I pick up if I want to scale my site to an audience of | Continue reading
Google Analytics is powerful analytics software. A common way to use it is to just slap the JavaScript snippet on every page template you have and let it | Continue reading
Why would a company promote a native app over their perfectly usable website?We’d have to ask them, I suppose. But it’s hard not to see this push to | Continue reading
The README for Cash is straightforward: Cash is an absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (IE11+) that provides jQuery-style syntax for | Continue reading
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles! In this | Continue reading