When should we reach for CSS grid and when should we use flexbox? Rachel Andrew wrote about this very conundrum way back in 2016:
Flexbox is essentially for laying out items in a single dimension – in a row OR a column. Grid is for layout of items in two dimensions – rows AND columns.
Ahmad Shadeed wrote a post where he gives the same advice, but from a different angle. He argues we should use grid for layout and … Read article “Grid for layout, flexbox for components”
Here’s a fantastic case study where Ivan Akulov looks at the rather popular writing app Notion and how the team might improve the performance in a variety of ways; through code splitting, removing unused vendor code, module concatenation, and deferring JavaScript execution. Not so long ago, we made a list for getting started with web performance but this article goes so much further into the app side of things: making sure that users are loading only the JavaScript that they … Read article “Analyzing Notion app performance”
I totally forgot that the Jamstack Conf was this week but thankfully they’ve already published the talks on the Jamstack YouTube channel. I’m really looking forward to sitting down with these over a coffee while I also check out Netlify’s other big release today: Build Plugins.… Read article “Jamstack News!”
The prototyping app Framer just launched the web version of their design tool and it looks pretty darn neat. I particularly love the design of the marketing site that explains how to use Framer and what sets it apart from other design tools. They have a ton of examples that you can pop open to explore as well, like this demo for how to make hover tooltips in the app:
I have to say that I love how the UI … Read article “Framer Web”
Between each post of Eric Meyer’s blog there’s this rather lovely illustration that can randomly be one of these five options:… Read article “Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS”
If you’re looking for a new typeface for that side project of yours then here’s a great website by John D. Jameson that collects a bunch of the latest type specimen websites. Everything is on display here, from the daring and bold, to those that are a bit more professional and reserved.… Read article “typespecimens.io”
