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Demystifying TypeScript Discriminated Unions

TypeScript is a wonderful tool for writing JavaScript that scales. It’s more or less the de facto standard for the…

3 years ago

Build, Ship, & Maintain Design Systems with Backlight

(This is a sponsored post.) Design systems are an entire job these days. Agencies are hired to create them. In-house…

3 years ago

How to Cycle Through Classes on an HTML Element

Say you have three HTML classes, and a DOM element should only have one of them at a time: <div…

3 years ago

Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks

Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern? Like where a colored section of a…

3 years ago

How Do You Handle Component Spacing in a Design System?

Say you’ve got a <Card /> component. It’s highly likely it shouldn’t be butted right up against any other components…

3 years ago

How to Make a Scroll-Triggered Animation With Basic JavaScript

A little bit of animation on a site can add some flair, impress users, and get their attention. You could…

3 years ago

Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?

You know that joke, “Two front-end developers walk into a bar and find they have nothing in common”? It’s funny,…

3 years ago

Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)

There is a little legwork to do if you plan on using SVG in WordPress. For fair-enough reasons, WordPress doesn’t…

3 years ago

Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think

Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a…

3 years ago

A Complete Beginner’s Guide to npm

(This is a sponsored post.) I remember vividly a period early in my coding career when I began to feel…

3 years ago