Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what gets published on the web disappears. Thankfully, the Internet Archive gets a lot of it. Jeff has seven things that he thinks will help make a page last.… Read article
Domain-Driven Design With React
There is very little guidance on how to organize front-end applications in the world of React. (Just move files around until it “feels right,” lol). The truth is that we can do better. Let’s take a look at one pattern you might consider using to architect your site.
At first, you might split up your code between /components and /containers folders. This works for small sites but you’ll find yourself look for something more robust when scaling to larger sites. … Read article
CSS Architecture for Modern JavaScript Applications
Chris Coyier
There is a lot to like from Mike Riethmuller here:
- The title. When you're building a website from JavaScript-powered components anyway, that is a moment to talk about how to do styling, because it opens some doors to JavaScript-powered styles that you probably wouldn't otherwise choose.
- The personal experience and pragmatism. Drawing on five years of consulting, he's seeing that component re-use and style understandability is suffering, not improving, partly due to every team having different approaches. He says "it's
The Many Ways to Include CSS in JavaScript Applications
Welcome to an incredibly controversial topic in the land of front-end development! I’m sure that a majority of you reading this have encountered your fair share of #hotdrama surrounding how CSS should be handled within a JavaScript application.
I want to preface this post with a disclaimer: There is no hard and fast rule that establishes one method of handling CSS in a React, or Vue, or Angular application as superior. Every project is different, and every method has … Read article
The 10,000 Year Clock Design Principals
Chris Coyier
In the new year edition of the Clearleft newsletter, Jeremy Keith linked to the design principals Danny Hillis thought about while considering a clock that would work for 10,000 years.
Here's part of that page… Read article
8 simple rules for a robust, scalable CSS architecture
Chris Coyier
I don't disagree on any particular point on this thesis by Jarno Rantanen.
This is the first I've seen this particular naming convention, which seems fine to me, but I'd add that any well-considering naming convention works.
Also, there is this:
Cascading styles will ruin your day, eventually.
A sentiment shared by many these days, and the likely culprit for all the peter-griffin-adjusting-the-blinds.gifs out there in the world. Again I don't entirely disagree, but, there are styles I gotta imagine … Read article