![Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/v/j/J/8/O/mars-theme-a-deep-look-at-frontity-s-headless-wordpress-theme.webp)
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
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![You don’t need external assets in an HTML file](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/E/x/J/2/M/you-don-t-need-external-assets-in-an-html-file.webp)
A fun exercise from Terence Eden. You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files. CSS and JavaScript are easy, because there are https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/08/you-dont-need-external-assets-in-an-html-file/
![Don’t attach tooltips to document.body](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/Y/E/3/q/n/don-t-attach-tooltips-to-document-body.webp)
Here’s Atif Afzal on using a that is permanently on the page where tooltips are added/removed and how they perform vastly better than plopping those same tooltips right into the . It’s not really discussed, but the reason …
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![The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/K/G/J/Q/z/the-story-behind-tryshape-a-showcase-for-the-css-clip-path-property.webp)
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators, artwork, and many more: they can help us understand context and inform our actions through affordances. A …
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![Can we have custom media queries, please?](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/m/r/4/3/a/can-we-have-custom-media-queries-please.webp)
Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it’s almost guaranteed front-end developers all over would start using it as …
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![Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/l/r/N/M/5/fire-svg-animations-smil-when-the-svg-is-visible.webp)
When requirements read “when visible” your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That’s exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation when it scrolls into view. Except this animation is an SVG SMIL animation: an …
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![Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/n/B/M/W/7/building-your-own-subscription-newsletter.webp)
(This is a sponsored post.) I did a sponsored video the other week explaining how to build a paid subscription newsletter using WordPress (we did it on WordPress.com but it could be hosted anywhere), MailPoet (a plugin to visually …
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![Firefox’s `bolder` Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/d/Y/P/A/j/firefox-s-bolder-default-is-a-problem-for-variable-fonts.webp)
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the and elements in browsers today is not very compatible with the wide range of …
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Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
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![Early Days for CSS Scoping](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/W/E/x/A/x/early-days-for-css-scoping.webp)
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now, a newsworthy event for the W3C. Other than a weird period where https://css-tricks.com/early-days-for-css-scoping/
![AWS Lambdas: Easy, Easier, Easiest](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/J/X/g/M/2/aws-lambdas-easy-easier-easiest.webp)
I’d say cloud functions are one of the most transformative technologies in the last bunch of years. They are (usually) cheap, scale well, secure in their inherit isolation, and often written in JavaScript—comfortable territory for front-end developers. Nearly every cloud …
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