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If you’re working on a large-scale Vue application, chances are at some point you’re going to want to organize the structure of your application so that you have some globally defined variables for CSS that you can make use of in any part of your application.

This can be accomplished by writing this piece of code into every component in your application:

<style lang="scss">
@import "./styles/_variables.scss";
</style>

But who has time for that?! We’re programmers, let’s do this programmatically.

Why?…

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Writing asynchronous JavaScript without using the Promise object is a lot like baking a cake with your eyes closed. It can be done, but it’s gonna be messy and you’ll probably end up burning yourself.

I won’t say it’s necessary, but you get the idea. It’s real nice. Sometimes, though, it needs a little help to solve some unique challenges, like when you’re trying to sequentially resolve a bunch of promises in order, one after the other. A trick …

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<person>, <subhead>, <location>, <logo>… It’s not hard to come up with a list of HTML elements that you think would be useful. So, why don’t we?

Bruce Lawson has a look. The conclusion is largely that we don’t really need to and perhaps shouldn’t.

By my count, we now have 124 HTML elements, many of which are unknown to many web authors, or regularly confused with each other—for example, the difference between <article> and <section>. …

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Hey! Chris here, with a big thanks to WordPress, for not just their sponsorship here the last few months, but for being a great product for so many sites I’ve worked on over the years. I’ve been a web designer and developer for the better part of two decades, and it’s been a great career for me.

I’m all about learning. The more you know, the more you’re capable of doing and the more doors open for you, so …

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In the last months, I’ve learned a lot about Vue. From building SEO-friendly SPAs to crafting killer blogs or playing with transitions and animations, I’ve experimented with the framework thoroughly.

But there’s been a missing piece throughout my learning: plugins.

Most folks working with Vue have either comes to rely on plugins as part of their workflow or will certainly cross paths with plugins somewhere down the road. Whatever the case, they’re a great way to leverage existing …

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