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Jules Forrest discusses some of the work that her team at Credit Karma has been up to when it comes to design systems. Jules writes:

…in most engineering organizations, you spend your whole first day setting up your development environment so you can actually ship code. It’s generally pretty tedious and no one likes doing it, but it’s this thing you do to contribute meaningful work to production. Which got me thinking, what would it look like to make it …

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Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.

Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, “Yeah, representing the tech field!” in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp feeling of panic.

Like many people who work on UIs for a living, I have difficulty applying the “tech” term to myself without feeling like a fraud. Impostor syndrome is a hard thing to shake. A front-end specialist? Oh, you …

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I use around 10 at the moment and they all provide functionality to me I find extremely important. Sometimes that functionality is every day all day. Sometimes it’s once in a blue moon but when you need it, you need it.

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I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has it all.

You can also check out our guide to making a simple site work offline and the offline site that resulted from it.

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We’ve got some base knowledge, we’ve played with some React and now we’ve got our project tools set up. Let’s dive into building our custom block.

Article Series:

1. Series Introduction
2. What is Gutenberg, Anyway?
3. A Primer with create-guten-block
4. Modern JavaScript Syntax
5. React 101
6. Setting up a Custom webpack
7. A Custom “Card” Block (This Post)

What we’re building

We’re going to build a custom card block that features an image, a title and a summary. It’s a really common design pattern …

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