What’s wrong with CSS-in-JS?
Brad Frost thinks it’s:
- Lack of portability
- Context Switching
- Flushing best practices down the toilet
In the spirit of good-ol-fashioned blog-and-response, here’s:
I’d like to point out that “CSS-in-JS” is an umbrella term, and that there are lots of takes on actual implementations of this. It’s possible to like one approach and not another.
My guess is we’ll end up with a split down the middle as a best practice someday.
When we write …
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7 Common Mistakes We All Make While Starting Out On Our Blog Journey
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Turn Sublime Text 3 into a JavaScript IDE
Sublime Text is one of the most popular editors for web development and software development in general. It’s very smooth and fast compared to other editors (being written in C++ helps that speed). Sublime also has tons of plugins you can find through Package Control.
But it’s only a text editor and not an IDE. An IDE is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. In fact, Sublime doesn’t offer features like …
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How to Create a Professional-Looking Freelancing Portfolio with WordPress (in 5 steps)
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How to build a slide deck in PowerPoint that isn’t god awful
“Oooh! A PowerPoint Presentation!”
— No one ever
Nobody likes a slide show. I don’t even have to back that assertion up with evidence. It’s a universal truth — like saying “the sky is blue”, “the grass is green” or “The Mummy with Tom Cruise is the worst movie ever made.” And if you haven’t seen The Mummy reboot, I just saved you and you should be grateful.
It’s as if there is some unwritten rule that says: if you …
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Locate and identify website visitors by IP address
(This is a sponsored post.)
Big thanks to ipstack for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week!
Have you ever had the need to know the general location of a visitor of your website? You can get that information, without having to explicitly ask for it, by the user’s IP address. You’re just going to need a API to give you that information, and that’s exactly what ipstack is.
Here’s me right now:
This works globally through an API that covers over …
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Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.9.6 Adds Privacy and GDPR Features
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WPWeekly Episode 315 – WordPress 4.9.6, Gutenberg, and Stolen Goats
Where Lines Break is Complicated. Here’s all the Related CSS and HTML.
Say you have a really long word within some text inside an element that isn’t wide enough to hold it. A common cause of that is a long URL finding it’s way into copy. What happens? It depends on the CSS. How that CSS is controlling the layout and what the CSS is telling the text to do.
This is what a break-out text situation might be like:
The text hanging out of the box is a visual problem.
One …
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