Cory LaViska articles - 17 total
Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present
It’s disappointing that some of the most outspoken individuals against Web Components are framework...
How to File a Bug Report
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction...
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
A Web Component Story
Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
Buttons and Cursors
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way...
Design Systems Aren't Cheap
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
Valid Names for CSS Parts
CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
A Web Components Primer
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
Flash of Undefined Custom Elements (FOUCE)
Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the...
Bulletproof Components
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof...
Empowering Design System Users
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
Exploring the EyeDropper API
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets you...
The Future of Frameworks
Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of...
Don't Do Magic
We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary...
On Buttons and Links
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
On Using Web Component Libraries
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components,...