web performance optimization gracefully deprecating your legacy codebase You're running a legacy codebase, supporting browser from 2013 and you want to avoid that your users are unable to use your service with your next release or you want to enrich your
strapi.io build a sapper/strapi website Rich Harris stalled sapper development on his talk at the svelte summit 2020 and the svelte@next thing looks really promising. In fact I tried directly to move a sapper page to svelte@
vue.js vue.js, axios, interceptors and toast-notifications I usually use axios when it comes to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (ajax) or more modern Asynchronous JavaScript and JSON (ajaj). I like that axios runs in the browser and in node.js,
vue.js vue.js router pagination One downside of browser rendered frontend frameworks is the temptation to hide structure or logic from your visitor. Your App might have a store, or component/route based data and produces on this
nuxt.js nuxt.js static page generator with dynamic pages With Nuxt.js you have the choice - will you deliver server side rendered pages over a node.js infrastructure, will you take the single page application approach like a Vue.js app
jest unit testing cookie or localstorage code with jest Imagine - you enter a website and first thing you see is a cookie banner telling you the website is heavily built on cookies and is not able to run without it and
gdpr follow up: wordpress webfont delivery via own domain Yesterday (I started the draft of this post on may 13 2018, 12 days before GDPR got applicable in the EU) I wrote about how to deliver webfonts from your domain and noticed,
frontend css dark-mode/light-mode - rethought So, you read my last blog entry about "CSS, Dark-Mode and Custom Properties" and start to build for every website a light and a dark theme, to support your visitors. That's nice -
frontend CSS, Dark-Mode and Custom Properties The other day, I was reading about "dark mode" and about the prefers color scheme media query, and... how cool is that? Often a customer requirement is to support the IE 11 and
web performance optimization Remove dust from a legacy project Years go by, platform code grows, browser platform support changes, and there you are: +300 Kilobytes of minified JavaScript code is shipped, same in CSS and the Chrome Code Coverage Tool shouts a
web performance optimization Lazy Load JavaScript[s] my idea of lazy loading javascript files - like you already do with images and iframes…
frontend WebP image and background usage in web projects UPDATE: I was late at the image-set party, please read this blog post, how to support avif and webp images in your project.With Firefox 65 joining the WebP party and thanks to
frontend deliver webfonts from your domain Webfonts may be the last tweak for your user experience (UX). And if you look around, chances your blog theme uses a webfont from a third party are very high. In this post,
frontend platform webfont Thanks to "cssweekly" and their link to "30 Seconds of CSS" - I saved very much research myself. I do not like webfonts very much. I like eBay's Font
ubuntu set up ubuntu bash and vscode on windows 10 for web development One windows 10 feature, the ability to run a native linux shell in windows, made me curious. I usually use ubuntu as working desktop, but sometimes I am on a windows desktop, doing
js jquery event delegation in plain js When you add an event handler, do you delegate it? Thanks to jQuery, I do. jQuery 1.3 shipped a function called .live() with which you could add event handlers for elements, that