Have a static site but looking to add backendy stuff — such as subscribing to a newsletter — to it? Geoffrey Dhuyvetters from madewithlove walks us trough setting up a serverless function with Vercel (formerly known as Zeit): In this article I’ll walk you through the steps to create serverless functions with Vercel. These functions […]
Tag Archives: javascript
Make <input type="number"> respond to arrow keys with modifier keys
By default <input type="number"> elements will increment/decrement by its step attribute value when pressing the up/down arrows. Kilian Valkhof provides us with some JavaScript to have these elements also respond to up/down keypresses while holding modifier keys. When someone uses the arrow keys in the input field, we want the following to happen: If they […]
Go Make Things: Service Workers
Chris Ferdinandi has been writing an excellent post series on Service Workers. After first explaining what Service Workers are and how to create one, he — as per usual on Go Make Things — also provides us with practical scenarios such as making pages available offline, caching web fonts to improve rendering, etc. Go Make […]
Say No To Complexity With AlpineJS
If you’re looking for a quick rundown of the aforementioned AlpineJS, here’s a talk by AlpineJS’s author Caleb Porzio which he presented at JSNation:
A Lightweight Masonry Solution
With Masonry being specced in Grid Layout Module Level 2 – and already being implemented in Firefox – Ana Tudor looked into whipping up a lightweight fallback for browsers that don’t support it. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry is a grid layout based on columns, as popularized by Pinterest. Unlike other grid layouts, it doesn’t have […]
Refactoring optional chaining into a large codebase: lessons learned
Lea Verou on how Optional Chaining affected her code, along with caveats and scenarios where it couldn’t be used. Now that optional chaining is supported across the board, I decided to finally refactor Mavo to use it. This is a moment I have been waiting for a long time, as I think optional chaining is […]
React v17.0: A “Stepping Stone” Release
No new features, but a lot of changes, paving the way for future releases. The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-facing features. Instead, this release is primarily focused on making it easier to upgrade React itself. We’re actively working on the new React features, but they’re not a part […]
Using JavaScript’s closest() Method to Capture a “Click outside” an Element
In Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method, Andreas Remdt talks about some nice use cases that use Element.closest(). I especially like this example with a menu. Click on one of the links and it will show the menu which has the class menu-dropdown. Clicking outside said menu will close it. It’s that latter one […]
Use your Smartphone to move a pointer on a remote page with JavaScript
Sanjeet Chatterjee built this nice demo where your smartphone can act as a virtual pointer for a webpage. With a fundamental shift to the web, we are able to do really cool things right from our browser. In this tutorial, we will be utilising the Generic Sensor API to turn your smartphone into a pointer […]
redaxios – The Axios API, as an 800 byte Fetch wrapper.
Axios has a great API that developers love. Redaxios provides that API in 800 bytes, using native fetch(). For those searching for ways to shave a few kilobytes off of their bundles, that’s less than 1/5th of the size. This is made possible by using the browser’s native Fetch API, which is supported in all […]