Bookmarks tagged webdev

"Craft.js solves this problem by modularising the building blocks of a page editor. It provides a drag-n-drop system and handles the way user components should be rendered, updated and moved - among other things. "

"The tl;dr is that search got really good suddenly and really easy to build because of AI."

"You might be thinking “All the things I use JS for, I need JS for”. That might be true, but it's good to know that both browser makers and specification writers have been porting a lot of functionality over to CSS and HTML that up to a few years ago needed JS. And that's what this article is about."

"Unlike the BBC, most sites have adopted the "Eternal CSS" pattern. When fashions change, the entire site gets a facelift - which means ancient articles look modern. This can mislead readers into thinking old information is new.
Here's (one way) this can be fixed - inspired by Moriel Schottlender fabulous historic CSS selector."

"Those handy little previews you see when you paste a link into a Slack message are what we refer to as unfurling internally at Slack (and also in Slack’s API documentation). While it may sound like a made up bit of tech jargon, it’s an actual word that means “to spread out from a rolled or folded state” which is what Slack attempts whenever it encounters a link."

"CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples."

"Mini apps are small (commonly 2-4 MB) apps that require a super app to run. What they have in common, independent of the super app, is that they are built with ("dialects" of) the web technologies HTML, CSS, and JavaScript."

"Pagefind is able to provide context on which sections of a page match a search term, based on the HTML id attributes found on the page."