Alan Shortis is a front end developer
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CSS environment variables
Not all viewports are perfect uninterrupted rectangles. How can the user agent help us tailor the experience to account for this?
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Future responsiveness
Using media queries to adapt layouts for screen size has defined responsive design for a long time, but now we can respond to more.
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Make your own website
There are a lot of places to quickly post some content. It's quick, convenient but ultimately bad for you and your work.
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Detect, set and save Dark Mode
Dark Mode is mainstream. Supporting it is reasonably easy, but what about giving users the option to contradict their OS settings and remembering that choice?
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React Render Props
The React documentation is really detailed and extensive, but the explanation of Render Props wasn't quite simplified enough for me as a beginner. Let's use Render Props in a really simple, real world example.
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Webpack and Babel for React
There so many ways to bootstrap a React app without touching any config. Let's put together a sensible config from scratch in order to better understand what's going on under the hood.
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WordPress and Composer
WordPress should be treated as a dependency like any other. With Composer and a little time it's not too hard to get there.
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Icons with SVG Sprites
First there were sprite sheets. Then icon fonts. Then SVGs. Now there are SVG sprites, and some .
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Handling z-index with SASS
It's not uncommon for z-indexes across your app to become a tangle of bigger and bigger values, all fighting to come out on top. SASS can help you manage that.