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Tagged “lean”

Lean “plugin subscription form” by Chris Ferdinandi

I enjoyed this two-part tutorial from Chris arising from his critique of a subscription form plugin which includes the entire React library to achieve what could be done with a lightweight HTML and vanilla JavaScript solution. Chris advocates a progressively-enhanced approach. Instead of rendering the form with JavaScript he renders it in HTML and argues that not only is there no need for the former approach – because forms natively work without JavaScript – but also it only introduces fragility where we could provide resilience.

Using the :has pseudo-class for real

By day I’m currently working on our Design System’s Table component. In order to achieve a design spec where the table has no bottom-border I needed to set:

  1. all cells in the final row of the <tfoot> to have no bottom-border; but also
  2. if there is no <tfoot> then set all cells in the final row of the <tbody> to have no bottom-border.

Modern CSS’s support for writing selectors which traverse the DOM up, down and sideways is pretty amazing here.

You Don't Need

A nice list of tips and tools on how to use simpler browser standards and APIs to avoid the added weight of unnecessary JavaScript and libraries.

Stuffing the front end

Here’s Bridget Stewart, a developer from Ohio, with some thoroughly enjoyable “curmudgeonly” thoughts on why your website doesn’t necessarily need a Javascript framework.

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