Why are hyperlinks blue?

Last year, Elise Blanchard did some great historical research and discovered that blue hyperlinks replaced black hyperlinks in 1993. They've been blue for so | Continue reading


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Getting Started With the File System Access API

The File System Access API is a web API that allows read and write access to a user's local files. It unlocks new capabilities to build powerful web | Continue reading


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Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably)

Kilian Valkhof: | Continue reading


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9 New React and JavaScript Links for February 2022

Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Like React and JavaScript! Here’s a list of nine | Continue reading


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Multi-Value CSS Properties With Optional Custom Property Values

Imagine a multi-value CSS property like transform and you don't want every value applied. You might think of CSS optional custom property values. | Continue reading


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A Whistle-Stop Tour of 4 New CSS Color Features

There many new and upcoming ways to define CSS color. Four new features include Display-P3, LCH, LAB and HWB. Let's preview them together. | Continue reading


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Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022

This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting | Continue reading


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Helpful Tips for Starting a Next.js Chrome Extension

I recently rewrote one of my projects — Minimal Theme for Twitter — as a Next.js Chrome extension because I wanted to use React for the pop-up. Using React | Continue reading


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A Chrome Extension for Cloudinary That Helps You Pluck Out Useful Media URLs From Your Library Quickly

Cloudinary is a host for your digital assets like images and video. If you don't already know them, you should, because you can build it into the asset | Continue reading


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SVGcode for “Live Tracing” Raster Images

A free online tool called SVGcode by Thomas Steiner is capable of an effect called "Live Trace" that converts a raster image into a vector image. | Continue reading


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How to Make CSS Slanted Containers

Here's how to created a CSS slanted container where the container itself is slanted, but the text and images are balanced for better legibility. | Continue reading


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No Motion Isn’t Always prefers-reduced-motion

You may want to think twice before using this CSS that attempts to obliterate any motion on a website using prefers-reduced-motion. | Continue reading


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Replace JavaScript Dialogs With the New HTML Dialog Element

Here's how to replace JavaScript dialogs with the HTML dialog element with the same functionality as the alert(), confirm(), and prompt() methods. | Continue reading


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Netlify Has Scheduled Functions

Hey! Scheduled Functions are cool! Think of them like a CRON job. I want this code to run every Monday at 2pm. I want this code run every hour on the hour. | Continue reading


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Using Different Color Spaces for Non-Boring Gradients

Think of color spaces as a physical map where individual colors are points on the map. Gradients walk from one point on the map to the next. | Continue reading


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CSS Scroll Snap Slide Deck That Supports Live Coding

We’ll build a CSS-only slide deck that supports live coding, using native web functionality and modern styling, like CSS scroll snap. | Continue reading


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A Deep Introduction to WordPress Block Themes

WordPress Block Themes were formally introduced in WordPress 5.9. This article is a deep dive introduction to block themes and full-site editing. | Continue reading


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Building a newbie-friendly codebase

Pedro Santos suggests: | Continue reading


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The Making of Atomic CSS: An Interview With Thierry Koblentz

Thierry Koblentz: I taught myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as a hobby after moving to the U.S. in 1997. | Continue reading


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Weird Browsers

: “Perhaps for what we’re losing in browser engine diversity, we’ll gain in browser UI/UX diversity” Chris quipped the other day in a post all about Bonsai. | Continue reading


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Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP

Here's a super classy demo from Michelle Barker over on Codrops that shows how to build a scrollable and draggable timeline with GSAP. It's an interesting | Continue reading


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User Registration and Auth Using Firebase and React

This tutorial will work us through on how to implement user registration, verification, and authentication in React using Firebase. | Continue reading


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“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available

Before the advent of evergreen browsers, you would need to go to the manufacturer’s website and manually download and install the update. | Continue reading


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Metaphors We Web By

Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper. | Continue reading


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Notes on Reverse-Scrolling Columns With CSS Scroll-Timeline

The CSS Scroll-Timeline feature can be used to create a slick reverse scrolling effect. But here's how to do it while honors prefers-reduced-motion. | Continue reading


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The Relevance of TypeScript in 2022

The current relevance of TypeScript is undisputed. But as we get into 2022, just how relevant is TypeScript going to be moving forward? | Continue reading


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The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom

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: | Continue reading


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Git: Switching Unstaged Changes to a New Branch

Say you're on the wrong Git branch with unstaged changes. There are a few to go about switching unstaged changes to a new branch. | Continue reading


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Demystifying TypeScript Discriminated Unions

TypeScript discriminated unions are types where a key or value can be used to differentiate between the keys and values of several types at once. | Continue reading


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Build, Ship, & Maintain Design Systems with Backlight

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 | Continue reading


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How to Cycle Through Classes on an HTML Element

Say you have three HTML classes, and a DOM element. Your job is to rotate the classes. That is, cycle through classes on the HTML element. | Continue reading


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Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks

In this article, we look at modern CSS mask techniques to create three fancy CSS borders without having to use a background image. | Continue reading


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How Do You Handle Component Spacing in a Design System?

How do you handle component spacing in a design system? Do you add margin directly to the components, or outsource it to another component? | Continue reading


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How to Make a Scroll-Triggered Animation With Basic JavaScript

Scroll-triggered events are very useful. There are libraries to create them but let's look at how to do it ourselves with a small handful of JavaScript. | Continue reading


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Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?

This article covers perspectives on accessibility in web design that could help us bridge the great divide between users and designers/developers. | Continue reading


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The CSS from-font Value Explained in 4 Demos

I found the CSS from-font value for the text-decoration-thickness property. I did a little research what I found (and learned) is interesting. | Continue reading


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Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)

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. | Continue reading


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Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think

An aspect of web components is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. | Continue reading


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A Complete Beginner’s Guide to npm

This npm guide helps you understand what npm is, what what makes npm a package manager, and how to use npm from a beginner's view. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

What the Heck Does “npm” Mean?

npm is short for Node Package Manager. Let's unpack exactly the meaning of npm and get an idea of how it fits into modern front-end development. | Continue reading


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What the Heck is the Command Line?

The command line is a place we can type commands to be executed directly by our computer. It’s extremely fast, and ideal for a tool like npm. | Continue reading


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What the Heck is Node?

Let's look at Node and how it plays alongside npm to install features and tooling as packages in modern front-end web development. | Continue reading


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What the Heck is a Package Manager?

npm stands for Node Package Manager. In order to get a better understanding of npm, we need to learn what a package manager is and does. | Continue reading


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How the Heck Do You Install npm?

In this article, we'll install npm and Node, then make a little sample project to give you real hands-on experience working with the npm basics | Continue reading


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How the Heck Do You Install npm Packages?

Next up in this beginner’s guide to npm is likely why you’re here in the first place: installing npm packages, which uses the `npm install` command. | Continue reading


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What the Heck Are npm Commands?

npm commands run various tasks for you, either as a one-off or a continuously running process for things like starting a server or compiling code. | Continue reading


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How the Heck Do You Install an Existing npm Project?

This article provides covers how to install an existing npm project rather than starting from scratch, using a real-life project as an example. | Continue reading


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A Serene CSS Dappled Light Effect

We can create a life-like dappled light effect In CSS, adding a magic touch to what might otherwise be drab walls of content to bring them back to life. | Continue reading


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