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A CSS Custom Property can be used to tweak colors darker when shown on light and lighter when shown on dark, making them pop in both cases.

TanStack Query, or react-query, simplifies client-side data fetching with features like caching, automatic re-fetching, and error handling. It integrates smoothly with TanStack Router, allowing efficient prefetching and loading states using hooks like useSuspenseQuery.

TanStack Router is one of the most exciting projects in the web development ecosystem right now, and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It’s a fully fledged client-side application framework that supports advanced routing, nested layouts, and hooks for loading data. Best of all, it does all of this with deep type safety. This post […]

One approach to color modes it to do it all in CSS with prefers-color-scheme media queries and/or the light-dark() function. A user toggle can be a future improvement.

Baseline now has a baseline-status web component widget that can be used anywhere to show of general browser support. This post gets into what else there is to think about there.

A single HTML `progress` element can have quite an elaborate design with custom colors, a tooltip showing the active %, and even an entrance animation.

You can give a name (“custom ident”) to any scrolling element’s “timeline”, have a parent element pick it up, then have any other element use it for their own animation timeline. It’s a trip!

jQuery for was great and all, but Alpine.js simplifies tasks like data binding and DOM manipulation, providing using a more declarative and clear structure, making it ideal for smaller projects.

Learn how Interaction to Next Paint (INP) measures web interactivity, why it matters for user experience and SEO, and practical strategies to keep your site feeling fast and responsive.

If you give a scroll or view timeline a –custom-ident name, then any descendent can “listen” to that timeline and base @keyframe animations off of it.