AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification was finalized in February 2019 and released by Alliance for Open Media to the public. […]
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Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com
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Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site
So, you’ve decided to build a blog with Next.js. Like any dev blogger, you’d like to have code snippets in your posts that are formatted nicely with syntax highlighting. Perhaps you also want to display line numbers in the …
Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo
If you’ve spent time looking at open-source repos on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that most of them use badges in their README files. Take the official React repository, for instance. There are GitHub badges all over the README file that communicate important dynamic info, like the latest released …
Creating Realistic Reflections With CSS
In design, reflections are stylized mirror images of objects. Even though they are not as popular as shadows, they have their moments — just think about the first time you explored the different font formats in MS Word or PowerPoint: …
Creating the DigitalOcean Logo in 3D With CSS
Howdy y’all! Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and maybe even then), you’ve undoubtedly heard the news that CSS-Tricks, was acquired by DigitalOcean. Congratulations to everyone! 🥳
As a little hurrah to commemorate the occasion, I wanted to …
Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App
In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, …
Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties
A while ago, Geoff wrote an article about a cool hover effect. The effect relies on a combination of CSS pseudo-elements, transforms, and transitions. A lot of comments have shown that the same effect can be done using background …
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nested Components in a Design System
When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are both reusable and responsive when there are nested components within components.…
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The grid-template-columns
CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, defining the columns of a grid container by specifying the size of the grid tracks and its line names.…
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The grid-template-rows
CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, defining the rows of a grid container by specifying the size of the grid tracks and its line names.…
Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators
Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, …