Web components promise speedier integration. At some level, I understood this. I've even made this exact point while advocating for them. And yet, what happened on a recent project surprised me.
Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack
Asset management and website performance optimization are two of those unavoidable headaches faced by every website owner.A digital asset management (DAM) platform can provide centralized asset repo
Free Image Resizer | Resize Your Images Online | Promo.com
Instant image resizer for all web and social media formats with one click. Free photo resizer for multiple sizes at the same time for online, printing, ads...
OCTO Project: Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “[git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/) to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.
Creating Your Own Reusable Vue Tabs Component – LearnVue
Reusable components are super important in VueJS. It helps you save so much time and when done right, really makes your project more readable and maintainable. In this tutorial, we'll be making a…
Creating Stylesheet Feature Flags With Sass !default | CSS-Tricks
!default is a Sass flag that indicates conditional assignment to a variable — it assigns a value only if the variable was previously undefined or null.
Useful VS Code Extensions For Front-End Developers — Smashing Magazine
Meet useful Visual Studio Code extensions for web developers: little helpers to minimize slow-downs and frustrations, and boost developer’s workflow along the way. Recently, we’ve also covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-generators/) and [accessible front-end components](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/complete-guide-accessible-front-end-components/) — you might find them useful, too.
How we use Web Components at GitHub — Kristján Oddsson talks about how GitHub is using web components. I remember they were very early adopters, and it
Seeing Weird Characters On Your Blog? Here’s How To Fix Your WordPress Character Encoding (Latin1 to UTF8)
Most people don't start looking for 'how to convert my Wordpress character encoding from Latin1 to UTF8'. Nope, not at first, but they often end up here. Usually it begins something like...
A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors — Smashing Magazine
Web fonts are often terrible for web performance and none of the font loading strategies are particularly effective to address that. Upcoming font options may finally deliver on the promise of making it easier to align fallback fonts to the final fonts.
Today we will look at fit-content and fit-content(), which are special values for width and grid definitions. It’s ... complicated — not as a concept, but in its practical application....
This week we’ll take a look at the new aspect-ratio declaration and its use. Una Kravets wrote the introductory article, but there are some additional technical points to be made. I also wrote a little fallback that you might use...