Chris Coyier

While I’m on a thread here, here’s another thing you’re definitely going to do in your web development career: validate some data. I just linked up some stuff about form validation, for instance. TypeScript can be a part of this process. There is some degree of data safety in your application by virtue of strictly […]

Here’s a thing you’re sure to do in your web developer career: add form validation to a form. You can’t leave that name field blank! That doesn’t look like an email address! That quantity is too high! Forms are a part of the beating heart of the web, and especially important to business. You can’t […]

HTML has a color input that is pretty decent: That’s it. Support across the board. However, browsers can and do have different approaches to what happens when the input is used. Ultimately: the user activates the input, may choose a color using the provided UI, and the color becomes the inputs value. It’s not my […]

Sometimes when crafting up some quick interactive vanilla JavaScript, I add an event listener and write the functionality I want to happen right there. For example, here’s a super basic character counter: Totally works. But, you won’t see any character count until you start typing something. That’s probably not ideal. It should count the characters […]

One job you’re sure to do many, many times in your web development career is: If you’re lucky, the data is JSON because it’s such a ubiquitous and predictable data format that nearly any language can deal with it. But the data could be an RSS feed, which is a format for syndicating article-like data. […]

Google has this little UI widget called Baseline that is intended to show you when Web Platform features are supported across a “baseline” of browser support. I’m a little confused by it. It could just be me. I suppose I’m looking either to be enlightened, or to offer this as feedback in case others share […]

Million.js caught my eye a few months back because of the big claim it makes: Make React 70% faster. I ended up listening to a podcast with the creator, and the meat of it is: it removes the need for “diffing” the virtual DOM that React uses when re-rendering to find what needs to change, which […]

Louis Lazaris has a newsletter featuring tools. So at the end of the year, he can just count up all the clicks and get a sense of the popularity. Not science, but interesting. Here’s a few that caught my eye:

I think the styling story for Shadow DOM Web Components is not great. I’ve got what seems to me like a simple idea that would help that. Fair warning: I’m just some dude on the internet with an opinion here. I’m coming at it from an author’s perspective who has only written a handful of […]

I’m still obsessed with how awesome and powerful :has() is in CSS. Ryan Mulligan really drives it home in We can :has it all with a single Pen that offers simple, realistic UI controls for: These are things you can easily imagine on any website, and now handled here entirely without JavaScript at all.