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Dynamic, Conditional Imports
With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:
import confetti from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/canvas-confetti';
confetti();
That import statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this:
(async () => {
if (condi..
Fading in a Page on Load with CSS & JavaScript
Louis Lazaris demonstrates a very simple way of doing this.
Hide the body (with JavaScript) right away with with a CSS class that declares opacity: 0Wait for all the JavaScript to execute Unhide the body by transitioning it back to opacity: 1
Like this:
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Learning 3D modeling in 14 Weeks
From my experiences, the first thing to do before getting started on a new skill is to setup a forcing function.
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What is at the top of the UX pyramid?
If you do a Google search on “UX pyramid”, you get lots and lots of UX pyramids. If you take a closer look, you’ll see that most people agree about the bottom of the pyramid.
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Next gen static blogging
If it’s one thing I learnt over the past years of coding is that simplicity is key.
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Connection-aware components
Over the last decade, we have learned to embrace the uncertainty of developing for the web.
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Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them
In the not-too-distant past, even basic accordion-like interactions required JavaScript event listeners or some CSS… trickery. And, depending on the solution used, editing the underlying HTML could get complicated.
Now, the
and
elements (which combine to form what’s called a “di..
A (terrible?) way to do footnotes in HTML
Terence Eden poked around with a way to do footnotes using the
/
elements. I think it’s kind of clever. Rather than a hyperlink that jumps down to explain the footnote elsewhere, the details are right there next to the text. I like that proximity in the code. Plus, you get the nati..
The best design conversations won’t be televised.
When a designer shares their career trajectory publicly, it’s been curated. When they speak about “what it’s like to work at Google”, that story has been vetted by Google’s PR team. When they post something on Linkedin, they focus only on what will make them look good. When there’s an audience, ther..
