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Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript
1 April 2025 @ 1:50 pm
One thing we can do to help teams code consistently is provide type-checking so that all of the configurable options for a specific component are available while coding. Bryan demonstrates how he does this with TypeScript when working with Astro components.
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Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries
31 March 2025 @ 2:59 pm
Interactive CSS animations with elements ricocheting off each other seem more plausible in 2025. While it’s unnecessary to implement Pong in CSS, the increasing flexibility and power of CSS reinforce Lee's suspicion that one day it will be a lifestyle choice whether to achieve any given effect with scripting or CSS.
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Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright
28 March 2025 @ 3:04 pm
With visual regression testing, we can update a page, take screenshots before and after the fact, and compare the results for unintended changes. In this article, learn how to set up visual regression testing using Playwright.
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Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component
25 March 2025 @ 12:47 pm
Having been tasked with creating a UI component for navigating the content of an online course, Daniel found himself neck-deep in a pool of new CSS features that he wound up using on the project.
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Support Logical Shorthands in CSS
24 March 2025 @ 2:06 pm
There’s a bit of a blind spot when working with CSS logical properties concerning shorthands.
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Revisiting CSS border-image
21 March 2025 @ 1:24 pm
I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type of creative implementation problems that most people need to solve. Most likely, it’s both.
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Quick Reminder That :is() and :where() Are Basically the Same With One Key Difference
20 March 2025 @ 1:51 pm
I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve into the details other than to say it can help make compound selectors a lot more readable.
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Styling Counters in CSS
17 March 2025 @ 4:25 pm
Going from the most basic ways to style lists directly in HTML to advanced customization techniques that are even capable of making things that aren't lists look like lists.
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Web Components Demystified
14 March 2025 @ 12:51 pm
Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course. You'll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like me.
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Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js
11 March 2025 @ 3:26 pm
With Astro, we can generate most of our site during our build, but have a small bit of server-side code that can handle search functionality using something like Fuse.js. In this demo, we’ll use Fuse to search through a set of personal “bookmarks” that are generated at build time, but return back proper results from a server call.
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