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This is how I set up a Pi 400 on my home network, used Cloudflare Tunnel to connect it to the Cloudflare network, used Auditable Terminal to connect to the Pi 400 via Cloudflare and the tunnel using nothing more than a browser.
The CSS Working Group Editor’s Draft for [Selectors Level 4](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/) includes several pseudo-class selectors that already have proposal candidates in most modern browsers. This guide will cover ones that currently have the best support along with examples to demonstrate how you can start using them today!
Not a typical one, at least. Each character is an HTML element, built with CSS. A true web font!
Let’s say someone asks you to add a double border to some random geometric SVG shapes. For some reason, you can’t use any graphic editor — they need to be
Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a new evolution of the Jamstack, allowing you to update static content instantly without needing a full rebuild of your site. The hybrid approach of Next.js allows you to use ISR for e-commerce, marketing pages, blog posts, ad-backed media, and more. In this article, Lee Robinson will explore a new evolution of the Jamstack: Incremental Static Regeneration
Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s
We had to determine how to leverage React Native while still using iOS and Android native features, and when and how we write native code.
Starting today, your team can use that same platform to seamlessly connect to non-HTTP resources from inside of a browser with the same level of Zero Trust control available in web applications.
You may have come across horizontal scrollbar issues, especially on mobile, if you’re a front-end developer. Because there are many causes of scrollbar problems, there is no straightforward solution. Some issues can be fixed quickly, and some need a little debugging skill. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will explore the causes of overflow issues and how to solve them. We will also explore how mode
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered CSS generators, SVG generators and accessible front-end components. This time we look into templates and tools for building and designing HTML emails. Don
You've seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of
This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced
In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time around, let’s look at vanilla JavaScript code snippets — resources and lightweight libraries to help you solve a problem without a large overhead or third-party dependencies.
By systemizing the fundamentals of typography and space, and leaning into the inherent fluidity of the web, a free new **CSS tool** called [Utopia](https://utopia.fyi/) offers an alternative to breakpoint-driven design. This shared language between design and development streamlines communication and encourages the creation of bespoke constraints for your projects to ensure consistent and harmonio
David Bushell in ”Changing CSS for Good“:
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Last weeks, we’ve covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators and accessible front-end components. This time around, Iris Lješnjanin will take a look at SVG generators — for everything from shapes and backgrounds to SVG path visualizers and SVG → JSX generators.
Reactivity is the ability for a variable (array, string, number, object, etc) to update when its value or any other variable that it makes reference to is changed after declaration. In this article, Timi Omoyeni is going to look at reactivity in Vue, how it works, and how you can create reactive variables using newly created methods and functions.
React is actually a bit of an outlier with state management. While it has first-class tools like useState and Context, you're more own your own for reactive
Protecting endpoints from browser-born zero-day attacks and malware with remote browser isolation is now easy for teams of any size.
Geoff shared this idea of a checkerboard where the tiles disappear one-by-one to reveal an image. In it, an element has a background image, then a CSS Grid
How it works and how to work with it... and around it
In "What the heck, z-index??," Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you've
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered CSS Auditing Tools and CSS Generators, and this time we look into reliable accessible components: from tabs and tables to toggles and tooltips. We sincerely hope that these tools and techniques will prove to be useful in your day-to-day work — and most important
In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related lawsuits,
As Flutter keeps evolving, there are more and more things we can do with it, but it’s still not reasonable to say that Flutter can be used for any app development project of any kind. Flutter has been transitioning from a cross-platform mobile development SDK for Android/iOS into a tool that allows you to run the same code natively in a browser on Windows, Linux and macOS. With Flutter 2, non-mobi
The JS Party podcast sometimes hosts game shows. One of them is Jeopardy-esque, called JS Danger, and some of us here from CSS-Tricks got to be the guests
For years, my pain has been not being able to create a somewhat natural-looking pattern in CSS. I mean, sometimes all I need is a wood texture. The only
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time Iris Lješnjanin brings you CSS Generators: from CSS shadows to easing gradients to CSS overlays to CSS doodles.
Looks like 2021 is the time to start using CSS Logical Properties! Plus, Chrome recently shipped a few APIs that have raised eyebrows, SVG allows us to
If you have a table of contents on a long-scrolling page, thanks to, say, position: fixed; or position: sticky;, the IntersectionObserver API in JavaScript is
All of us use web scraping in our everyday lives. It merely describes the process of extracting information from a website. For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a page’s data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, Andreas Altheimer will build a web scraper that can scrape dynamic websites ba
The block editor was a game-changer for WordPress. The idea that we can create blocks of content and arrange them in a component-like fashion means we have a
Recently, I had to make a web page displaying a bunch of SVG graphs for an analytics dashboard. I used a bunch of <rect>, <line> and <text>
A handy advanced TypeScript pattern to increase your productivity.
There are plenty of ways to do it, here's how I recommend typing React Components
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
In this article, we’ll look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. You’ll learn how to recreate an open-source React component (react-foco) from scratch in doing so. To get the most out of this article, you’ll need a basic understanding of JavaScript classes, DOM event delegation and React. By the end of the article, you’ll know how you can use JavaScript class instance pr
Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY.
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
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
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
The syntax for various functions and function types in TypeScript with simple examples.
An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel. In this article, Subha Chanda will showu you how to build a bot from scratch using JavaScript and with help from Discord.js. He’ll cover the process from building the bot up to deploying it to the cloud.
We've covered the idea of hiding things in CSS many times here, the most recent post being Marko Ilic's "Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS" which
React component tests should be interesting, straightforward, and easy for a human to build and maintain.
Of all the reasons we love and use Jetpack for CSS-Tricks—a poster child WordPress site—is that we can sleep easy at night knowing we have real-time backups
A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly supported `aspect-ratio` property in combination with `object-fit` provides a remedy to this headache of the past! In this article, Stephanie Eckles will show you how to use these properties, in addition to creating a responsive gradient image effect for extra flair.
Blobs are the smooth, random, jelly-like shapes that have a whimsical quality and are just plain fun. They can be used as illustration elements and background
Zach takes a look at some fundamental HTML+CSS usage for fluid, responsive images. Most of it, I'd say, is what you'd expect, but things get weird when srcset
HTML has a built-in native audio player interface that we get simply using the <audio> element. Point it to a sound file and that’s all there is to it.
Make a human readable list from an array in JavaScript.
I like Andy's idea here:
Imagine a header of a website that is nice and thick, with plenty of padding on top and bottom of the content. As you scroll down, it shrinks up on itself,
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Headless CMS is a powerful and easy way to manage content and access API. Built on React, Sanity.io is a seamless tool for flexible content management. It can be used to build simple to complex applications from the ground up. In this article, Ifeanyi Dike explains how to build a simple listing app with Sanity.io and React. The global states will be managed with Redux and the application will be s
Scott Jehl doesn't mince words here:
We don't have "regular" nesting in CSS. Maybe this becomes a thing someday, or something like it. That would be cool, although that pre-spec doesn't mention
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
In this episode, we’re talking about HTML controls. Why are they so hard to style, and how might that change in the future? Drew McLellan talks to Microsoft’s Stephanie Stimac and Melanie Richards to find out.
