I recently read declarative design by Jeremy Keith. In the post he discusses different approaches to writing CSS in terms of declarative or imperative design where declarative is used to describe CSS authoring techniques that leverage the power of CSS and the cascade such as Utopia Every Layout and intrinsic design and imperative for tools such as Tailwind.
Read ArticleI came across an issue this week where I accidentally added a 301 redirect to a page on a site I was working on. The issues was that Chrome aggressively caches 301 redirects, and as this had been added in error I needed to find a way to 'undo' the redirect. It took me quite a while to find the solution to this, but in the end it was deceptively simple.
Read ArticleLast time I walked through setting up a simple notice component that could display messages to a user, and communicate status using icons and color. In this post we'll devlop that component further to add some interactivity with Stimulus JS.
Read ArticleFollowing on from my last post about setting up a component based view system in Rails, I thought it would be good to share an example of building out a component in rails with the Komponent gem.
Read ArticleEarly last year we wanted to overhaul the user interface of our app. I was keen to improve the structure of the app and ensure that the code became more readable and maintainable - at that point the app was about 6 years old and some of the view code had become overly complex and hard to follow.
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