Jim Nielsen:
I think you’ll find it quite refreshing to use React A) with a JSX-like syntax, and B) without any kind of build tooling.
Refreshing indeed: CodePen Embed Fallback It’s not really the React that’s the hard part …
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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2020/react-without-build-tools/

Here’s a nice simple demo from Moritz Gießmann on animating the triangle of a element, which is the affordance that tells people this thing can be opened. Animating it, then is another kind of affordance that tells people …
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Zach Leatherman wrote up a comprehensive list of font loading strategies that have been widely shared in the web development field. I took a look at this list before, but got so scared (and confused), that I decided not to …
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https://css-tricks.com/the-best-font-loading-strategies-and-how-to-execute-them/

Erik D. Kennedy notes an interesting phenomenon of color gradients. If you have a gradient between two colors where the line between them in the color space goes through the zero-saturation middle, you get this “gray dead zone” in …
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Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY. We could do this in JavaScript. If we did, we could do things like make make an element …
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(This is a sponsored post.) If you want to put Next.js on Netlify, here’s a 5 minute tutorial¹. One of the many strengths of Next.js is that it can do server-side rendering (SSR) with a Node …
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Every letter in this “font” by Davor Suljic is a single div and drawn only with border. That means employing some trickery like border-radius with exotic syntax like border-radius: 100% 100% 0 0 / 37.5% 37.5% 0 0; which …
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In this week’s roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how to opt into cross-origin isolation, see how WhiteHouse.gov approaches accessibility, and warn the dangers of 100vh.…
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In every project where I use Tailwind CSS, I end up adding something to it. Some of these things I add in every single project. I’ll share these with you, but I’m also curious what y’all are adding to …
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A wonderful post by Josh that both introduces CSS transitions and covers the nuances for using them effectively. I like the advice about transitioning the position of an element, leaving the original space it occupied alone so it doesn’t result …
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