The Best Loading States Are No Loading States
Applications often end up with skeletons, spinners, shimmer effects, loading overlays, suspense fallbacks, and all sorts of other UI whose…
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Why Judging APIs by Syntax is Misleading You
Okay, the title is a bit hooky, but the idea behind it is feeling more relevant than ever. We often see new APIs with similar goals to pre…
Zero is Not Local-First. It's Better.
If you've used local-first libraries before, you'll know the pitch. The idea is that the data your app needs is synced to the browser or…
A Future for Web Components Without Shadow DOM
There’s been a lot of buzz around Web Components (WCs) lately, and honestly, I’ve felt the pain myself. It seems like every time we hit a…
Challenging Established Norms: Making Component Fetching the Exception
Over the years, I've tried many ways of getting data into my apps—XMLHttpRequest, fetch, Apollo GraphQL, React Query, Remix loaders, React…
Progressively Enhance for a More Resilient Web
There has been a lot of talk on the socials lately about progressive enhancement. Some good, some bad, and while the bad is often misled I…
Avoid Global State, Co-locate with Uncontrolled Compound Components
With all the best intentions, codebases frequently end up a tangled web of components, abstractions, and global state (managed by a third…
Are You a Component Control Freak?
It’s tempting to always control the components we implement. There are many tutorials that teach us about lifting state including React’s…
Smarter, Dumb Breadcrumb
Breadcrumbs can be a useful tool to help users find their place within your website or application. I'm going to build one using the…
Compound Components
Compound components provide a declarative API that can allow for some impressive solutions to everyday problems. But what are they? Let's…