Whatever Google wants it to be. I always thought it was exactly what your <title> element was. Perhaps in lieu of that, what the first <h1> on the page is. But recently I noticed some pages on this site that were showing a title on SERPs that was a string that appeared nowhere at all in the source of the page. When I first noticed it, I tweeted my basic findings… Where does that title come from?It's not the <h1> on the page, that reads:backdrop-..

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If you’ve recently started working with GraphQL, or reviewed its pros and cons, you’ve no doubt heard things like “GraphQL doesn’t support caching” or “GraphQL doesn’t care about caching.” And for most, that is a big deal. The official GraphQL documentation refers to caching techniques so, clearly, the folks behind it do care about caching and its performance benefits. The perception that GraphQL is at odds with caching is something I want to address in ..

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(This is a sponsored post.) There is a lot of buzz around apps running on the edge instead of on a centralized server in web development. Running your app on the edge allows your code to be closer to your users, which makes it faster. However, there is a spectrum of edge apps. Many apps only have some parts, usually static content, on the edge. But you can move even more to the edge, like computing and databases. This article describes how to do that. Intro to the edge..

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Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the container) rather than the size of the entire page. So, if a container is 600px wide, perhaps it has a row-like design, but any narrower than that it has a column-like design, and we’ll have that kind of control. That’s much different than transitioning between layouts based on screen size. We can already size some things..

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When I came up in web development (2005-2010 were formative years for me), one of the first lessons I learned was to have a clean foundation of HTML. “What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like” is actually one of the most popular posts on this very site. The image in that post made its way to popular pages on subreddits every once in a while. Now, while I still generally write HTML like that by default when working on sites like this one, I also work on projects that don’t..

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Logging, on its own, is a key aspect of any application. Logging helps developers comprehend what it is that their code is doing. It also helps save developers hours of debugging work. This tutorial is about implementing logging in a Node.js application using Pino-logger. With logging, you can store every bit of information about the flow of the application. With Pino as a dependency for a Node.js application, it becomes effortless to implement logging, and even storin..

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CSS is on a tear lately. Again, I’ve heard of a brand new thing I’ve never seen before, and again it’s via Miriam: CSS Conditionals. 🎉 CSSWG just resolved to adopt @tabatkins when/else proposal into the next level of CSS Conditionals. Here's the proposal:https://t.co/IXEOK7xKcL— Miriam (But Terrible) (@TerribleMia) September 15, 2021 There is already such a thing as logic in media queries. In fact, a media query is already logic. @media (min-width:..

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There is a new thing coming in CSS: @layer. As with all new things, it takes time to really wrap your head around it. And despite me tapping at my keyboard about it, full disclosure, I’m not sure my mind is fully there yet. Fortunately, smart people are on the case! This comes from Miriam Suzanne, who is really on a tear with influencing important new CSS stuff. I’ve been hearing about all this, but then all the sudden it just dropped in experimental browsers: ..

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CSS ::before and ::after pseudo-elements allow you to insert “content” before and after any non-replaced element (e.g. they work on a <div> but not an <input>). This effectively allows you to show something on a web page that might not be present in the HTML content. You shouldn’t use it for actual content because it’s not very accessible in that you can’t even select and copy text inserted on the page this way —  it’s just decorative content. ..

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(This is a sponsored post.) The web’s premier conference is online this fall, October 11–13, 2021: An Event Apart Full Summit. If you already know how good of a conference this is (i.e. that some of the web’s biggest ideas debut at AEA) then just go buy tickets and please enjoy yourself. You can buy literally any combination of the three days. That coupon code, AEACSST21, is good for $100 off if you buy two or more days. That’s only half! If you’d like to ..

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