TODO

We left off in a decent place, but there was some missing functionality that we wanted all along. Editing To-Dos The interaction we decided on for editing is to double-click the todo. This will turn the to-do, in place, into an editable input. Then you hit enter (e.g. submit) or leave the input (e.g. blur) […]

I’m already a little over all the green. What was I thinking? I’m much more of a nice gray color palette kinda guy with some fun poppy colors. That’s what we need to get to here. When we left off, we just had wireframes going. It’s time to get some style on this thing! Custom […]

We left off with a wireframe-y looking HTML-ized version of our design. Personally, I’m a little tempted to get some CSS on there, but let’s hold off and do the very basic JavaScript functionality first. That will make it, ya know, actually functional, and having some of the interactive stuff in place might inform some […]

OK it’s HTML time! I love HTML time. We’re laying down a foundation that makes everything feel very real. Is HTML jumping the gun? Nah. The reason that we can jump to HTML right away is that it is common to any other future choice we make. As I mentioned, we might just stay in […]

I find it fascinating how websites come to be. Especially websites with user interactivity and functionality, there are so many things to plan, build, and maintain, that it’s no wonder it easily makes for a whole career. Perhaps one of the most cliché introductory things to build on the web (or otherwise), is a to-do […]

I took a shot at coding TodoMVC with modern (ES6+), vanilla JavaScript, and it only took ~170 lines of code and just over an hour! Compare this to the old/official TodoMVC vanilla JS solution, which has over 900 lines of code. An 80%+ reduction in code! I ❤️ the new state of JavaScript. The code has received […]