CategoryTechniques

November 11, 2021 — Dribbbleshots just might be the hotbed of questionable dashboards. Striking visuals, little context, and no research: all recipes for mediocrity. Mediocrity won’t do. We’ll pursue greatness. And in that pursuit, we’ll cover research, decluttering, and data visualization. In this article, Adam Fard will talk about research, decluttering, and data visualization, as well as how these things can make your dashboard design better. Read more…

October 25, 2021 — If we use a width and height that isn’t proportional to the image’s aspect ratio, the image might either be compressed or stretched. That isn’t good, and it can be solved either with object-fit for an img element or by using background-size. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will go through how object-fit and background-size work, when you can use them, and why, along with some practical use cases and recommendations. Let’s dive in. Read more…

October 8, 2021 — Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools. Let’s make it the domain of just one content creator in which the user will fill out a form before reading the story. In this article, Bryan Robinson will be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let’s go! Read more…

October 6, 2021 — Debugging in CSS means figuring out what might be the problem when you have unexpected layout results. Today, Stephanie Eckles will look at a few categories bugs often fit into, see how you can evaluate the situation, and explore techniques that help prevent these bugs. Read more…

September 15, 2021 — Front-end development is exciting and fast-moving. With newer CSS properties, we can brush the dust off our old techniques and give them another look. For years, pseudo-elements have faithfully helped front-end developers implement creative designs. While they still have an important place, we can now leave pseudo-elements behind in some scenarios, thanks to newer CSS properties. Read more…

September 8, 2021 — Being able to look past the apparent simplicity, break down a component into its constituent parts, ask key questions, and even consider future uses, are all skills that will serve any developer well when building websites In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors. Read more…

September 1, 2021 — What exactly is a displacement filter? In this article, Dirk Weber will be diving into one of the most spectacular filter effects: the SVG feDisplacementMap filter primitive. In order to make it all easier to digest, Dirk has divided the article into three parts in which you’ll be exploring how the feDisplacementMap works, methods to create fancy displacement maps in SVG, and methods to animate the filter and create dramatic visual effects. Read more…

August 27, 2021 — A compound component is one of the advanced patterns of React which makes use of an interesting way to communicate the relationship between UI components and share implicit state by leveraging an explicit parent-child relationship. In this article, Ichoku Chinoso will show you one of the advanced patterns of React which is the compound component pattern. It’s an awesome method to build reusable components in React by using the compound component pattern to build your component offers you a lot of flexibility in your component. Read more…

August 24, 2021 — In a world that is increasingly going remote, prioritizing good documentation and good documentation workflow is important. In this article, you’ll learn how to save hours of tedious work of writing, updating, and correcting technical documentation. In this article, you will learn how to automate your documentation workflow with Vale and GitHub Actions. Read more…

August 6, 2021 — VS Code can be supercharged wuth hundreds of VS Code extensions. In this article, Leonardo shares four useful extensions that help him in his daily work. Read more…