Massive round-up over at Smashing Magazine listing a bunch of accessible front-end components: from tabs and tables to toggles and tooltips. A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components →
A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components
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HSL: a color format for humans
Over at the Cloud Four blog, Paul Hebert digs into HSL colors Colors on the web are confusing — but they don’t have to be! The HSL format makes it easy for humans and computers to work with color. Included are some nice CodePen-hosted Color Pickers, such as this one: See the Pen HSLA Color …
Easily write Twitter threads with ThreadStart
Whenever I write a Twitter Thread I carefully lay out my planned tweets in advance in a text editor. After manually adjusting my sentences to have tweetable parts, I tweet them out one by one. Quite a cumbersome work, where ThreadStart can do the heavy lifting for me instead: Creating a Twitter thread without guidance …
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React Flow – Library for Building Interactive Node-based UIs, Editors, Flow Charts and Diagrams
React Flow is a library for building node-based graphs. You can easily implement custom node types and it comes with components like a mini-map and graph controls. React Flow →
Too Many SVGs Clogging Up Your Markup? Try use
Good reminder by Georgi Nikoloff to have one (visually hidden) SVG that contains several layers, which you can then include further down in your code. SVG has a <defs> tag that lets us declare something like our graph footer just once and then simply reference it — using <use> — from anywhere on the page …
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Manage your DNS from GitHub with DNSControl
In this post Sven Luijten uses DNSControl from within GitHub Actions to manage DNS: What if you could edit a JavaScript file with your desired DNS configuration, submit a pull request on GitHub, see a preview of the changes you are about to make, and when you merge it, have those changes be applied completely …
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Debugging Layout Shifts
Over at web.dev, Katie Hempenius learns us how to identify and fix layout shifts using the Layout Instability API and the DevTools. What I take away from this is that you can easily spot them using DevTools: In the Rendering Panel you can enable an option to highlight areas of Layout Shift: To enable Layout …
SWR — React Hooks library for data fetching
From the Next.js folks comes SWR, a React Hooks library for data fetching built on Suspense: The name “SWR” is derived from stale-while-revalidate, a cache invalidation strategy popularized by HTTP RFC 5861. SWR first returns the data from cache (stale), then sends the fetch request (revalidate), and finally comes with the up-to-date data again. It …
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<tab-container> Custom Element — An Accessible Tab Container Element with Keyboard Support
Built by GitHub is <tab-container>, a Custom Element that defines an accessible tab container element with keyboard support and that also follows the ARIA best practices guide on tabs. Upon importing the package it will register the Custom Element, so you can use it immediately: <tab-container> <div role="tablist"> <button type="button" role="tab" aria-selected="true">Tab one</button> <button type="button" …