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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

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


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

What should someone learn about CSS if they last boned up during CSS3?

CSS3 was a massive success for CSS. No doubt loads of people boned up during that time. How has CSS changed since? Let's count the ways. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

4 Quality Options for a Table of Contents Block in WordPress

There are a number of options for including a Table of Contents block in WordPress, including several plugins, or trying to do it yourself. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Making a Site Work Offline Using the VitePWA Plugin

The VitePWA plugin adds a service worker that handles offline support, caching assets, and prompting users when new content is available. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?

A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet to See (and Disable) CSS Files

The CSS Me Not bookmarklet lets you see all of the CSS files on a site, notably unused files you might want to prevent from loading. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Code Artists

I saw some Mondrian Art in CSS going around the other day and figured I'd go looking for others I've seen over the years and round them up. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

How to Build Your First Custom Svelte Transition

The Svelte transition API provides a way to animate components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions. | Continue reading


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8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022

Every so often, I accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of them! Here are 8 helpful accessibility links. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters

Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don't provide | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier

Hot off the presses from Devon Govett, creator of Parcel, is Parcel CSS, a CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Open Source & Sustainability

I don't feel confident operating or maintaining open source. That makes me scared of it, and my fear makes me avoid doing it at all. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle

You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Netlify Identity, a Key Aspect to Jamstack Development

Netlify Identity is a robust offering that provides authentication on a Jamstack site. It’s super easy to enable and opens up a bunch of possibilities. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?

Sometimes UI elements, like tooltips, need to be edge-aware to prevent the content inside from triggering weird scrollbars or cutting off content. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App

Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples)

Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

What is Chromium Without Chrome on Top?

Chromium isn't actually just the core browser stuff where Chrome then adds stuff on top of it. | Continue reading


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