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Direct link to the article Lightweight Form Validation with Alpine.js and Iodine.js
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Lightweight Form Validation with Alpine.js and Iodine.js

Many users these days expect instant feedback in form validation. How do you achieve this level of interactivity when you’re building a small static site or a server-rendered Rails or Laravel app? Alpine.js and Iodine.js are two minimal JavaScript …

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Hugh Haworth on Jan 20, 2021
Direct link to the article Life with ESM
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Life with ESM

ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.

Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuance, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open.…

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Chris Coyier on Jan 19, 2021
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Netlify Edge Handlers

Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think they change the nature of what Jamstack is and can be.…

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Direct link to the article On Type Patterns and Style Guides
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On Type Patterns and Style Guides

Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …

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Derek Wood on Jan 19, 2021
Direct link to the article Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL
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Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL

WordPress is a CMS that’s coded in PHP. But, even though PHP is the foundation, WordPress also holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. That philosophy establishes an implicit contract between the developers building WordPress themes …

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Leonardo Losoviz on Jan 18, 2021
Direct link to the article AnimXYZ
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AnimXYZ

There are quite a few CSS animation libraries. They tend to be a pile of class names that you can apply as needed like “bounce” or “slide-right” and it’ll… do those things. They tend to be pretty opinionated with …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 18, 2021
Direct link to the article State of JavaScript 2020
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State of JavaScript 2020

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We rounded up a bunch of published 2020 annual reports right before the year ended and compiled them into a big ol’ list. The end of the list called out a couple of in-progress surveys, one of which was …

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Shared by Geoff Graham on Jan 18, 2021
Direct link to the article On Auto-Generated Atomic CSS

On Auto-Generated Atomic CSS

Robin Weser’s “The Shorthand-Longhand Problem in Atomic CSS” in an interesting journey through a tricky problem. The point is that when you take on the job of converting something HTML and CSS-like into actual HTML and CSS, there are edge …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 17, 2021
Direct link to the article 3 Approaches to Integrate React with Custom Elements
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3 Approaches to Integrate React with Custom Elements

In my role as a web developer who sits at the intersection of design and code, I am drawn to Web Components because of their portability. It makes sense: custom elements are fully-functional HTML elements that work in all modern …

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Caleb Williams on Jan 15, 2021
Direct link to the article #202: Centered List Markers

#202: Centered List Markers

Like so many things CSS, there is all sorts of little stuff to know, even something as minuscule as centering a list marker.

A reader wrote in with a screenshot of what they were trying to accomplish — basically an …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 15, 2021
Direct link to the article Proper Tabbing to Interactive Elements in Firefox on macOS

Proper Tabbing to Interactive Elements in Firefox on macOS

I just had to debug an issue with focusable elements in Firefox. Someone reported to me that when tabbing to a certain element within a CodePen embed, it shot the scroll position to the top of the page (WTF?!). So, …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 14, 2021
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