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(2 min) Wes has a heck of a set of “notes” for learning JavaScript. It’s organized like a curriculum, meaning if you teach JavaScript, you could do a lot worse. It’s actually more like 85 really fleshed-out blog posts organized into sections … The post Beginner JavaScript Notes appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(6 min) The wonderful company I work for, Payoneer, has a new logo, and my job was to recreate it and animate it for a loader component in our app. I’ll explain exactly how I did it, share the problems I … The post My Struggle to Use and Animate a Conic Gradient in SVG appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(4 min) Command line tools are one of the most popular applications we have today. We use command line tools every day, and they range from git, npm or yarn. Command line tools are very fast and useful for automating applications and … The post Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

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(10 min) This post will show you how to build the Feature Toggle mechanism in your Next.JS application. We are going to use Next.JS, React, and TypeScript. We will deploy our application to Vercel to demonstrate the real-life example. You can find the code and video in the summary at

(6 min) Developing web pages used to involve writing HTML, CSS, and a little scripting code like JavaScript for functionality. But over time, we've developed new and more advanced technologies and frameworks to create webpages. We now use things like reusable components, routing, and rendering to the document object model (DOM). These

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(16 min) Even though Vue.js claims to have an approachable minimalist framework that can be incrementally adaptable, it can be a little bit overwhelming when starting as a Vue.js newbie. In this article, we’re looking at ways to make writing Vue.js a breeze.

(8 min) Astro is a brand new framework for building websites. To me, the big thing is that it allows you to build a site like you’re using a JavaScript framework (and you are), but the output is a zero-JavaScript static site. … The post A Look at Building with Astro appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(5 min) There are a lot of great defaults when it comes to browsers and the web. Think about all the accessibility features that are baked into HTML so that you don’t have to do weird stuff, like this example from Manuel… The post The Web’s Worst Default appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(3 min) Objects are one of the most valuable things you can learn in JavaScript. You can use them to take your programs to the next level. An object is a collection of data – or key value pairs – which consist of variables and functions that you can access using dot notation. Now

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(14 min) Interactive Components in Figma allows designers to create a component with states (hover, active, clicked, focus) and make it interactive so that every copy of the component will inherit those same interactions by default. Let’s explore how it can reduce the time and effort needed to create interactions for your mock-ups.

(2 min) I appreciate the clarity of this trick that Mikael Ainalem posted over on Reddit: It’s a one-liner that toggles the class on the so you can mock up different states and toggle between them on click. <body onclick="this.classList.toggle("active");" Could … The post Body Toggle appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(2 min) And maybe an optional follow-up if you’re up for it. Automattic, the makers of Jetpack and many other WordPress-y things, have sponsored my site (me = Chris Coyier; site = CSS-Tricks) for quite a while. I use Jetpack myself, … The post I’ve got one question about Jetpack for you. appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(14 min) Normally, a project will have a set of pre-determined font sizes, usually as variables named in such a way that seeks some semblance of order and consistency. Any project of considerable size can use something like that. There are always … The post The Dilemma of Naming Font Size Variables appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(8 min) In this article, I'm going to explain how to automatically upload an Android App Bundle (.aab file) to the Play Store's beta track. We'll use Android Studio and AWS as a cloud infrastructure provider. Once we've uploaded the app bundle, we'll trigger a Slack notification. This is a valuable use

(8 min) In this tutorial, you will learn how to authenticate users and secure endpoints in Node.js. You'll also see how to implement Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Node. So let's get started. Prerequisites You'll need the following to follow along with this tutorial: A working understanding of JavaScript. A good

(14 min) There is an array of Headless CMSes out there. In this article, we delve into headless CMS features to satisfy your content editors, marketers and yourself as a developer. For the experience headless practitioner, this could be a checklist to see what’s new out there. For those starting out on their headless journey, this could be a guide on what to look for.

(4 min) If you zone out every time someone mentions “Kubernetes,” “containers,” or “pods,” this article is for you. No complex diagrams involved! As a front-end developer, you don’t have to know how to configure an infrastructure from scratch. However, if you … The post Kubernetes Explained Simply: Containers, Pods and Images appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(9 min) Web design is such a rectangle-based design medium that literally any deviation from it feels fresh. Michelle Barker gets into using math in various ways to programmatically draw lines, shapes, and animations that end up looking both beautiful and have … The post Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Beyond Triangles appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(5 min) In this article, Ahmad Shadeed explains what HSL is, how to use it, and shares some of the useful use-cases and examples that you can use right away in your current projects.

(6 min) It’s CSS-Tricks birthday! Somehow that keeps coming around every year. It’s that time where I reflect upon that past year. It’s like the annual vibe check. I’m writing this just days after my current home state of Oregon has … The post The Fourteenth Fourth appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(6 min) The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it’s not without uses. In text, maybe you’d use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are treated individually but not have any physical space around the slash:… The post Zero-Width Space appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(11 min) Like it or not, meetings are essential to a good working environment and communication. Therefore, it’s crucial that we work on making them as productive as possible. Today we’ll explore myriad ways to keep meetings coordinated, well documented, and talk … The post Good Meetings appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(4 min) This is a super niche blog post. But it’s been on my list forever to write down because this caused me grief for far too long. The setup is that you can use WooCommerce to sell things on a WordPress … The post The Trick to Enable Printify Shipping Notifications for Orders in WooCommerce? Customer Notes. appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(14 min) With so many tools and approaches, email still has quite a few pain points, both for developers and email marketers. Email is difficult because it has too many aspects to set and a few instances with no common rules to follow.

(5 min) The marketing for Core Web Vitals (CWV) has been a massive success. I guess that’s what happens when the world’s dominant search engine tells people that something’s going to be an SEO factor. Ya know what language can play a … The post CSS for Web Vitals appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

(16 min) When writing front-end tests, you’ll find a lot of pitfalls along the way. Let’s explore common mistakes developers make, and how to avoid them. Testing doesn’t need to be painful, after all.

(16 min) The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer's toolbelt for these kinds of problems. Let’s get up to speed on Workers on the Web!

(12 min) Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy!

(8 min) Static Generation is great for performance — until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’ll have a look at how Netlify’s fresh On-Demand Builders can fix that.

(22 min) In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Drew McLellan talks to expert Mike Cavaliere to find out.

(8 min) In this article, Manuel explains why Emmet is one of his favorite productivity tools for writing HTML and CSS, and how you can create custom Emmet snippets in Visual Studio Code to help you improve your front-end workflows even more.

(18 min) This article explains how we can connect different types of content in a Next.js application. With this technique, we can add any kind of one-to-one, one-to-many, or even many-to-many relationship to our projects.

(12 min) This article is a case study of how a UX audit affects a UI. It explains how a famous educational platform can be analyzed edX against Jakob Nielsen’s usability guidelines. To get started, Mark Lankmiller shares all of the criteria and metrics he used for his UX audit.

(14 min) In the dynamic and unpredictable environments in which we work, even the most carefully crafted solutions can have a short shelf life. When we accept that our work is impermanent and our problem-solving abilities are limited, our goal can shift from delivering full solutions to developing tools that empower our users to adaptively design for themselves.

(1 min) Added: support an experimental template for YouTube feed 📺 Demo | Source Aggregate content from any YouTube channel rss url https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= Videos are embedded via iframe and loading accelerated by youtube-lite-embed Ads are reduced thanks to YouTube's policy for embedded videos 🙃 Works on mobile devices with butter smooth horizontal scroll. Caveat: the template works only with YouTube content. You cannot mix textual RSS feed or other video sources such as Vimeo. Changed: Default HTML template meta tag adjusted to match convention Changed: sources in template data is now ordered by last update timestamp (as opposed to alphabetical) Thank you @PiyushLosalka

(3 min) Frontend and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run [online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) for all of us to learn together. And we have new ones coming up, and we’d like to kindly welcome you to join in.

(5 min) Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already tools for linting and integration testing accessibility, but what about end-to-end testing with real assistive technology? Since I hadn’t seen this before, I set out to build Auto VO, a driver for the VoiceOver screen reader.

(10 min) After years of innovation in both tools and processes, the struggle between design and development is still real. This article focuses on the best practices for improving the design to development processes and how cutting-edge solutions, such as UXPin powered by Merge technology, can help in facilitating the change.

(18 min) Do you have to process data manually because it is served through images or scanned documents? An image-to-text conversion makes it possible to extract text from images to automate the processing of texts on images, videos, and scanned documents. In this article, we look at how to convert an image to text with React and Tesseract.js(OCR), preprocess images, and deal with the limitations of Tesseract (OCR).

(11 min) Voice assistants are currently the most popular use case for voice user interfaces. However, due to the bad feedback loop resulting from voice assistants can only solve simple user tasks such as setting an alarm or playing music. In order for voice user interfaces to really break through, feedback to the user must be visual, not auditive.

(13 min) Next.js has a file-based routing system in which each page automatically becomes a route based on its file name. This article will guide you through almost everything you need to know about Routing in Next.js and point you in the direction of related topics and concepts.

(5 min) Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description.

(14 min) In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered HTML Emails and SVG Generators. This time we look into different kinds of tools to help you streamline your accessibility testing process. Don’t miss the next one.

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(36 min) In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about image optimization. What steps should we follow for performant images in 2021? We talk to expert Addy Osmani to find out.

(12 min) Spoiler alert: tooltips, modals, tabs, carousels, and dropdown menus are some of the user interface components that require more than CSS. To ensure accessibility of your interface, JavaScript is a necessary addition to accomplish focus management, respond to keyboard events, and toggle ARIA attributes.

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(17 min) We don’t need to write everything from scratch every single time. With boilerplates and starter kits, we can set up our projects faster, and get to work immediately.

(3 min) Building a faster website can be a rocket task these days. There are so many things to consider, so it’s challenging to get everything right. Here are some less-known tools that might help you get there.