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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 […]

Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables to the console. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML in it?!? I didn’t! It’s a neat technique that can delight the curious and further your brand for curious users.

I’m a huge proponent of open source, and here at Frontend Masters, we’re constantly looking for ways to support and promote various projects. Whether it’s through creating courseware for new projects, teaching our students how to work with them, engaging with maintainers, or even donating directly to some projects. In fact, since 2019, we’ve donated […]

You’ll hear people say they miss the Movable Type days. Or that Adobe should have never killed off Fireworks. Or in their heart they are still a MooTools stan. Or that their good ol’ days were Backbone and Lodash. Laying out sprites was their heyday. Table-based layout still makes the most sense to them. Every […]

I’ve seen all the excitement about scroll-driven animations. I’m excited too. Animations that use scroll position as a timeline rather than a time-based duration is just a clever idea. It’s something that websites have been using probably-too-much JavaScript for for a long time and it’s nice to see that kind of thing move to CSS […]

I believe it will be sometime in January we’ll hear what the Interop Project is going to focus on in 2024. This is a cross-company effort that picks certain web platform features to make sure work perfectly across browsers, meaning us web developers will more happily choose to implement them. I think it’s awesome. We’ve […]

Do you have a project where every time you open up that project’s root folder in VS Code, you need to run something like npm run dev to get started working? It’s likely that spins up the compiler and server and such needed to see and work on the site. Myself, I’ve got lots of […]