TypeScript without Build Tools

By Chris Coyier on

You can build your own TypeScript build process, and you might want to if you need true type checking and compatibility with a wider ecosystem of tools. But lots of tools, including now Node itself, just accept TypeScript as if it were JavaScript.

CSS text-box

By Chris Coyier on

Safari is first to drop text-box in CSS, which plenty of people are excited for as it takes care of aligning text in many cases without the use of fragile magic numbers. They say: Now you can declare which font metric you want the browser to consider the edge of the text box when calculating […]

12 Days of Web

By Chris Coyier on

Shoutout to Stephanie Eckles’ 12 Days of Web advent blogging this year. I found each article fresh and with good information, a real standout to me. Just one day left but of course you can read them anytime.

1 dataset. 100 visualizations.

By Chris Coyier on

Imagine this simple data set: Norway Denmark Sweden 2004 5 4 13 2002 8 10 15 Pretty simple, but there is interesting stuff going on. Someone might be trying to reference an individual bit of information, but they also might be looking to compare data, or look at the rate of change of the data […]

Calibre Website Speed Test

By Chris Coyier on

Calibre, the website performance testing app, launched a one-off Website Speed Test page anyone can use for free. This is nice it requires no special knowledge to use (anyone can type in a URL), the test can be run from significant geolocations (that probably aren’t where you live), and the test result is saved and […]