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Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App

In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of…

2 years ago

Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties

A while ago, Geoff wrote an article about a cool hover effect. The effect relies on a combination of CSS…

2 years ago

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nested Components in a Design System

When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are…

2 years ago

Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators

Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up…

2 years ago

Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes

In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on…

2 years ago

Making Mermaid Diagrams in Markdown

Mermaid diagrams and flowcharts have been gaining traction, especially with GitHub’s announcement that they are natively supported in Markdown. Let’s…

2 years ago

Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch

I’m a big fan of movies by J.J. Abrams. I enjoy their tight plots, quippy dialog, and of course: anamorphic…

2 years ago

Adding CDN Caching to a Vite Build

Content delivery networks, or CDNs, allow you to improve the delivery of your website’s static resources, most notably, with CDN…

2 years ago

Tricks to Cut Corners Using CSS Mask and Clip-Path Properties

We recently covered creating fancy borders with CSS mask properties, and now we are going to cut the corners with…

2 years ago

6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development

A bookmarklet is a JavaScript-based bookmark that adds to a web browser. I’d like to show you some awesome web…

2 years ago