Pedro Santos suggests:
Using naming conventions such that you can learn them once and apply them everywhere Unidirectional data flows. Make it easy to follow the app flow. No magic numbers. I’d add they are even worse in CSS
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Building a newbie-friendly codebase originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
I interviewed Thierry Koblentz, creator of Atomic CSS, to understand the history and background that led to making of the popular CSS framework. Thierry, now retired, has vast experience writing CSS at large scale and has previously worked …
The Making of Atomic CSS: An Interview With Thierry Koblentz originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
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 challenge to have two different interactions (vertical scrolling and horizontal dragging) be tied together …
Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/building-a-scrollable-and-draggable-timeline-wit
The ability to identify users is vital for maintaining the security of any applications. Equally important is the code that’s written to manage user identities, particularly when it comes to avoiding loopholes for unauthorized access to data held by an …
User Registration and Auth Using Firebase and React originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/user-registration-authentication-firebase-react/
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:
“[…] well it can’t be a browser issue. It’s not like my Mom is using Internet Explorer!
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The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/the-optional-chaining-operator-modern-browsers-and-my-mom/
I have a coworker who is smart, capable, and technologically-literate. Like me, they work on the web full-time. When they are sharing their screen in a meeting, I find myself disassociating fixating on the red update button in their copy …
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/evergreen-does-not-mean-immediately-available/
Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.
Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […] The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it
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Metaphors We Web By originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
Lemme do this one quick-hits style:
Mary Lou published a quintessentially-Codrops-y demo called Alternate Column Scroll. The scrolling effect is powered by Locomotive Scroll, which we’ve coincidentally covered before. Bramus has been exploring native CSS scrolling effects
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Notes on Reverse-Scrolling Columns With CSS Scroll-Timeline originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
It’s 2022. And the current relevance of TypeScript is undisputed. TypeScript has dominated the front-end developer experience by many, many accounts. By now you likely already know that TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, building on JavaScript by adding …
The Relevance of TypeScript in 2022 originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
I was doing my Advent of UI Components, and I stumbled upon the from-font value for the text-decoration-thickness CSS property. I was curious about it, so I did a little research and I think what I found (and learned) …
The CSS from-font Value Explained in 4 Demos originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/from-font-value-text-decoration-thickness/