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This is the story of how one little octopus, explaining one beginner’s concept, carried such weight and power for Kylo that it drove his work and led him to research something that is really quite silly. And yet, it transformed how he learned to write — and finally understand — JavaScript.
Vercel Secure Compute and Vercel Firewall for enhanced protection of your applications on the frontend cloud
Many problems with website layouts happen when we don’t write CSS with the same care we’d use when writing a JavaScript function. Let’s look at how we can borrow best practices and ideas from writing good JavaScript functions for writing CSS.
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between “assignment” and “mutation” in JavaScript.
WhatsApp has launched a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. The feature requires no additional actions or steps from users and helps ensure that a conversation is secure. Key transparency solutions help strengthen the guarantee that end-to-end encryption provides to private, personal messaging applications in a transparent
WhatsApp has launched a new security feature that further helps prevent attackers from using vectors like on-device malware. This security feature, called Device Verification, requires no action or additional steps from users and helps protect your account. This feature is part of our broader work to increase security for our users from the growing threat […]
We’re sharing how Meta delivers high-quality audio at scale with the xHE-AAC audio codec. xHE-AAC has already been deployed on Facebook and Instagram to provide enhanced audio for features like Reels and Stories. At Meta, we serve every media use case imaginable for billions of people across the world — from short-form, user-generated content, such […]
`next/font` automatically self-hosts your custom fonts, preventing layout shift and significantly reducing needed code.
Over the coming months, Cloudflare Workers will start to roll out built-in compatibility with Node.js core APIs as part of an effort to support increased compatibility across JavaScript runtimes
Historical guide to zero-CLS A/B testing with Next.js and Edge Config, updated with current Vercel guidance for Routing Middleware and Vercel Functions.
If I navigate to https://blog.cloudflare.com/, my browser will connect to a remote TCP address from the local IP address assigned to my machine, and a randomly chosen local TCP port. What happens if I then decide to head to another site?
Based on an example of a multilingual app that displays street photography images from Unsplash, Jan Amann explores next-intl to implement all internationalization needs in React Server Components and shares a technique for introducing interactivity with a minimalistic client-side footprint.
In this article, William Lyon explores how to build a full stack GraphQL application that takes advantage of the API Routes feature of Next.js API to combine your GraphQL server and front-end React applications into a single framework.
Did you know that creating a complex form can be progressively enhanced using some Vue features like the v-for and the v-model? In this article, Olufunke shares some basic Vue core features that are super useful when building out the complex form in your day-to-day Vue usage.
In this article, Paul Scanlon shares a super lightweight approach to creating a Donut chart using conic-gradient(). There are no additional libraries to install or maintain, and there’s no heavy JavaScript that needs to be downloaded by the browser in order for them to work.
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!
In this article, Elisabeth Wieser-Linhart explores its potential benefits and drawbacks and shares what considerations and steps were involved in the process of migrating the front-end interface of Storyblok’s headless content management system.
Cloudflare engineers rewrote cf-html, an old NGINX module, in Rust. This project revealed much about NGINX, potentially leading to its full replacement in Cloudflare's infrastructure.
Cache only part of your page as static data, while fully dynamically rendering the rest of your application, including accessing real-time and personalized data.
SEO is a critical priority in Next.js on Vercel, letting you rank higher in search engine results and better optimize your content for users.
Established UI patterns are often underutilized in the frontend development world, despite their proven effectiveness in solving complex problems in UI design. This article explores the application of established UI building patterns to the React world, with a refactoring journey code example to showcase the benefits. The emphasis is placed on how layering architecture can help organize the React
Writing Javascript without a build system
SVG `` provides a way to define how an element moves along a motion path. In this article, Paul Scanlon shares an idea of how to use it by animating race cars in an infinite loop as easy as one-two-three!
It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does
In the first part of the series, Kirill Myshkin covers some aspects of JavaScript that help bring objects closer to primitive values, which allow benefiting from common language features that aren’t usually associated with an object, like comparisons and arithmetic operators.
While we’re working on getting our Shopify Functions infrastructure ready for the public beta, we thought we’d use this opportunity to shine some light on how we brought JavaScript to WebAssembly, how we made everything fit within our very tight Shopify Function constraints, and what our plans for the future look like.
With so many image editing services available nowadays, it’s good to have one good solution that is applicable for all websites and web apps that need to provide image editing as a feature. Hristo Chakarov explains how Pixo Editor’s easy integration (just a few JavaScript lines) and rich API can save your time and improve your end users’ workflow.
Navigating large scale migrations
Web development, especially what you can do with CSS, has become increasingly complex. With the added capabilities of CSS Grid, it is now possible to achieve layouts that look like they were laid out by hand. Let’s tackle a practical example of how to do something like that.
The Gestalt team tells us how they used Figma’s REST API to create FigStats, a dashboard for visualizing component usage.
In handling forms in React, you can either set up a custom solution or reach out to one of the many form libraries available. In this article, we compare some React Libraries: SurveyJS, Formik, React Hook Form, React Final Form, and Unform.
The new App Directory architecture has been the main character of the recent Next.js release, which keeps bringing up many questions. In this article, Atila Fassina explores the advantages and pitfalls of this new strategy and reflects on whether you should use it in production now or not.
Developers often feel discouraged from editing SVG markup and experimenting with SVG animations, thinking it’s a significant time investment or they need to use a complex animation library to do so. In this article, Adrian showcases his favorite tricks, which make the process streamlined and fun.
Tucked down somewhere in the Safari Technology Preview 161 release notes is a seemingly innocous line about support for a new HTML element and attribute:
Managing our colors can truly help people to access our content. In this article, Brecht de Ruyte takes a deep dive into how we can create a high-contrast system while maintaining a balance between designing something accessible and respecting the look and feel of a brand.
I’m pleased to shine a light on the fact that the CSS grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns properties are now animatable in all major web browsers!
The CSS relational selector :has() offers what was previously impossible without JavaScript. Let’s explore some magical powers that :has brings.
The :has() pseudo-class is, hands-down, my favorite new CSS feature. I know it is for many of you as well, at least those of you who took the State of CSS
When working with draggable elements in React Native mobile apps, there are some simple ways to help gestures and animations feel better and more natural.
In this article, Daniel Yuschick demonstrates that building selfish components is the key approach to avoiding different pitfalls on the way to good component design.
React Wrap Balancer tidies up bad typography and matches line lengths on the fly.
A little thing happened on the way to publishing the CSS :has() selector to the ol' Almanac. I had originally described :has() as a "forgiving" selector, the
The good ol’ <table> tag is the most semantic HTML for showing tabular data. But I find it very hard to control how the table is presented, particularly
Recently UXPin has extended its powerful Merge technology by adding npm integration, allowing designers to sync React component libraries without requiring any developer input. This new step aims to improve collaboration between designers and developers.
A little while back, Ganesh Dahal penned a post here on CSS-Tricks responding to a tweet that asked about adding CSS box shadows on WordPress blocks and
As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web applications! In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to wire up all of the different form controls in React. Never forget how to data-bind a checkbox or radio button again!
A look at React Native Skia in 2022 and what kept Christian Falch, Colin Gray, and William Candillon busy. Plus, a look at what's ahead for the library in 2023.
In 2020, we announced that React Native is the future of mobile at Shopify. As part of that journey, we’ve been migrating Shopify Mobile (our largest app at 300 screens per platform) from native to React Native. Here’s how it’s going.
No more random scripts in Python and JavaScript to transform CSV or JSON data. In this article, Alvin Bryan shows you how to use Miller, a small and powerful CLI tool, to do all your data processing.
You may have already heard of CSS logical properties or RTL adaptations but are still deciding whether to deploy them widely. To help raise your awareness of their possibilities, Nicolas Hoffmann shares his experience of how he and his team at Proton carried out a massive move from CSS logical props to production and how you can consider them from a different perspective in your very own projects.
