Articles Tagged vue

Hey how cool! A documentary about Vue! Good timing as it looks like VueConf is happening right now. (Reminder we have a site for conferences to tell you stuff like that).

Sarah appears in it (about 21:13) and talks about CSS-Tricks for a second, so we’re officially super famous now and I have already booked sailing lessons. The series Sarah mentioned is here.

I’ll embed it in the body of the post here.… Read article “Vue.js: The Documentary”

The inline-template directive allows us to build rich Vue components as a progressive enhancement over existing WordPress markup.

I recently wrote an article explaining how you can create a countdown timer using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Now, let’s look at how we can make that a reusable component by porting it into Vue using basic features that the framework provides.

Why do this at all? Well there are few reasons, but two stand out in particular:

• Keeping UI in sync with the timer state: If you look at the code from the first post,  it all lives in the timerInterval function, most noticeably the state management. Each time

… Read article “Moving from Vanilla JavaScript to a Reusable Vue Component”

Page reloads are a thing. Sometimes we refresh a page when we think it’s unresponsive, or believe that new content is available. Sometimes we’re just mad at the dang site and rage-refresh to let it know we’re displeased.

Wouldn’t be nice to know when a user refreshes the page? Not just that, but how many times? That data can help us trigger some sort of behavior after a certain number of reloads.

A sports site is a good example. If … Read article “One Way to Break Users Out of the Habit of Reloading Too Much”

Most of the time you don’t really care about whether a user is actively engaged or temporarily inactive on your application. Inactive, meaning, perhaps they got up to get a drink of water, or more likely, changed tabs to do something else for a bit. There are situations, though, when tracking the user activity and detecting inactive-ness might be handy.

Let’s think about few examples when you just might need that functionality:

• tracking article reading time
• auto saving form or

… Read article “Detecting Inactive Users”

I recently attended the ARTIFACT conference in Austin, TX, and was inspired by a few talks about accessibility through the lens of site performance. It became clear to me that there is this tendency to rely on big JavaScript frameworks to handle the work — like React, Vue, and Angular — but that can be overkill in some cases. That is, negatively affecting site performance, and thus accessibility. At the same time, these frameworks can make development easier and more … Read article “Filtering Lists Dynamically With Vue on the Server Side is Easier Than You’d Think”

I recently had an opportunity to try the new Vue Composition API in a real project to check where it might be useful and how we could use it in the future.

Until now, when we were creating a new component we were using Options API. That API forced us to separate the component’s code by options, meaning that we needed to have all reactive data in one place (data), all computed properties in one place (… Read article “An Early Look at the Vue 3 Composition API in the Wild”

A popover is a transient view that shows up on top of a content on the screen when a user clicks on a control button or within a defined area. For example, clicking on an info icon on a specific list item to get the item details. Typically, a popover includes an arrow pointing to the location from which it emerged.

Popovers are great for situations when we want to show a temporary context to get user’s attention when interacting … Read article “Reusable Popovers to Add a Little Pop”

In this post, we’ll be using an ecommerce store demo I built and deployed to Netlify to show how we can make dynamic routes for incoming data. It’s a fairly common use-case: you get data from an API, and you either don’t know exactly what that data might be, there’s a lot of it, or it might change. Luckily for us, Nuxt makes the process of creating dynamic routing very seamless.

Let’s get started!… Read article “Creating Dynamic Routes in a Nuxt Application”

I recently drew up a wireframe for a code beautifier. The next day, I decided to turn it into a real tool. The whole project took less than two days to complete.

I’d been thinking about building a new code beautifier for a while. The idea isn’t unique, but every time I use someone else’s tool, I find myself reapplying the same settings and dodging advertisements every single time. 🤦🏻‍… Read article “How I Created a Code Beautifier in Two Days”