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You've got a problem. Your painting fell, and you want to hang it back up. You grab a hammer and some...

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There are a bunch of guides out there explaining how to write 11ty configs in typescript so that you...

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Let's use makecode to turn a micro:bit into a dreidle! Micro:bit is a tiny opensource device...

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Form-Associated Custom Elements are a new web standard by which to build custom interactive form...

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Elliott Marquez challenged me to write a redux controller on the Lit & Friends slack. ...

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Today I completed a fun little challenge using CSS Grid. The goal was to update a layout that relied...

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In honour of Hannukah this year, I undertook to write 8 web components tips, one for each night of...

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Introducing the next evolution in GraphQL web apps with Apollo Elements: Reactive Controllers and dynamic HTML queries bring you more power and more flexibility.

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Javascript class accessors let you define a function to get or set a particular value on an...

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Let's build a colour picker web component using HTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript. In the...

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After so much hype, After so much excitement, After so many buzzwords, After months and years of...

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Learn how to write a To-Do list app with Apollo Elements and GraphQL. Use declarative HTML and JavaScript components and built-in web platform standards.

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Apollo Elements lets you write reusable and interoperable GraphQL components once, then use them in any frontend framework or none. Share your work across teams or publish your company's web components for others to use.

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How I brought Apollo Element's documentation into the space age with 11ty and the Rocket meta-framework.

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Build performant, data-driven apps with Apollo Client and Web Components

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Stripe Elements custom elements work across front-end frameworks and even in vanilla HTML and JS.

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Some say that promises shouldn't be used when async await is available but that's not always true. Here's why 'promise chains' are actually amazing.

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Uncaught TypeError: bar is not a function

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How to overlay content on top of an image or other element simply using CSS Grid.

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One developer's experience at his first international tech conference. What could possibly go wrong 😜?

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One developer's experience at his first international tech conference. What could possibly go wrong 😜?

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One developer's experience at his first international tech conference. What could possibly go wrong 😜?

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Let's build a web component to embed a dev.to feed in a page.

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Web Components are awesome, but perhaps a little misunderstood. This post dispels many myths which have cropped up recently.

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Create web components that leverage the power of Apollo GraphQL.

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Component-based UI is all the rage these days. Did you know that the web has its own native component...

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Hey There, Dev! What's the current state-of-the-art for LAMP workflows? My client has a small team,...

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Hit that sweet spot between library cruft and bare browser APIs with Gluon web components.

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Reactive Components without compiling or VDOM Overhead? Say hello to LitElement.

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Learn how to build web components and factor apps with the OG web-components library, Polymer.