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Django saaspegasus.com

Modern websites, JavaScript optional (Django + HTMX + Alpine)

Building a modern front end in Django without reaching for a full-blown JavaScript framework. Choosing the right tools for the job, and bringing them into your project.

This is as close to a tutorial as you’ll see on Changelog News. I’m linking to it not for the step-by-step bits like talking to your “Django backend without a full-page reload”, but for the decision making bits like “when you might choose low-JavaScript.”

JS Party JS Party #200

Best of the fest! Volume 1

JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate our favorite moments from the past 100 episodes! You’ll hear from over 20 of your favorite voices across 14 episodes. We also share some behind-the-scenes and read/hear from listeners! Here’s to the last 200 episodes, and the next 200 as well. 🥂

HTML github.com

A tool like jq, but for HTML

htmlq uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. Mozilla’s MDN has a good reference for CSS selector syntax.

This looks super handy. Examples!

// Find part of a page by ID
curl --silent https://www.rust-lang.org/ | htmlq '#get-help'

// Find all links in a page
curl --silent https://www.rust-lang.org/ | htmlq --attribute href a

// Get the text content of a post
curl --silent https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html | htmlq  --text .main

Henrik Fricke indiepen.tech

Indiepen – a privacy-friendly solution to present your code to people

Henrik Fricke:

Indiepen lets you embed HTML, CSS, and JS code examples on a website. We built it because we wanted to embed code examples on our blog, but many existing solutions set cookies, have a ton of features or just come with a bad performance.

😎 No cookies, no tracking, no external requests
⚡️ Small footprint with less than 20 KB
❤️ Features built for everyone

Congrats, Henrik, on shipping your first open source project! 👏

Chris Coyier CSS-Tricks

Choice words about the upcoming deprecation of JavaScript dialogs

Chris Coyier is not too pleased about browsers changing the way cross-origin iframes handle certain native JavaScript calls such as alert and confirm:

Cross-origin iframes are essentially the heart of how CodePen works. You write code, and we execute it for you in an iframe that doesn’t share the same domain as CodePen itself, as the very first line of security defense. We didn’t hear any heads up or anything, but I’m sure the plans were on display.

The change is about security and performance, it seems. There’s a workaround using postMessage, but that comes with its own problems that Chris details. Overall, it seems the way this change is being rolled out is more of a concern than the change itself…

Believe it or not, I generally am a fan of Google and think they do a good job of pushing the web forward. I also think it’s appropriate to waggle fingers when I see problems and request they do better. “Better” here means way more developer and user outreach to spell out the situation, way more conversation about the potential implications and transition ideas, and way more openness to bending the course ahead.

Chris Coyier CSS-Tricks

Images are hard.

I believe Chris Coyier put that period at the end of this post title for a reason:

Putting images on websites is incredibly simple, yes? Actually, yes, it is. You use <img> and link it to a valid source in the src attribute and you’re done. Except that there are (counts fingers) 927 things you could (and some you really should) do that often go overlooked. Let’s see…

He goes on to list 15 bullet points of things to consider. This images situation is actually a microcosm of the web (and all software?) itself: it appears easy/simple at first, but the deeper you go, the more dizzying the depth.

CSS daisyui.com

DaisyUI – component classes for Tailwind

When we had Adam Wathan on JS Party, I asked him if anybody besides the Tailwind team were working on component libraries. He said yes, but didn’t name any off the top of his head. Well, add DaisyUI to the list.

Your HTML doesn’t need to be messy. DaisyUI adds component classes to Tailwind CSS. Classes like btn, card, etc… No need to deal with hundreds of utility classes.

No script dependencies. 2KB gzipped. Worth a look.

Ashley Kolodziej CSS-Tricks

A love letter to HTML & CSS

Ashley Kolodziej speaking directly to HTML:

You are the foundation of the Internet. You are the bridge between humans and information. When we say HTML isn’t an expertise in and of itself, when we take you for granted, we leave behind the people and systems who access that information using web crawlers and accessibility technology.

and CSS:

There is a time and place for specificity, and I cherish your ability to manage that. I love your system of overrides, of thinking ahead to what should and shouldn’t be modifiable by another developer easily. I find the appreciation of specificity and !important and contrast and all the beautiful little things you do well increasingly lost in the pursuit of the newest and shiniest frameworks.

A lovely love letter to two of my favorite technologies. 💚

A List Apart Icon A List Apart

The future of web software is HTML-over-WebSockets

Matt E. Patterson writing for A List Apart:

The dual approach of marrying a Single Page App with an API service has left many dev teams mired in endless JSON wrangling and state discrepancy bugs across two layers. This costs dev time, slows release cycles, and saps the bandwidth for innovation.

What’s old is new again (with a twist):

a new WebSockets-driven approach is catching web developers’ attention. One that reaffirms the promises of classic server-rendered frameworks: fast prototyping, server-side state management, solid rendering performance, rapid feature development, and straightforward SEO. One that enables multi-user collaboration and reactive, responsive designs without building two separate apps. The end result is a single-repo application that feels to users just as responsive as a client-side all-JavaScript affair, but with straightforward templating and far fewer loading spinners, and no state misalignments, since state only lives in one place.

I won’t spoil the ending where Matt places his bet on the best toolkit to accomplish this, but let’s just say you’ve probably heard of it. Whoops!

HTML austingil.com

Building better forms for the web

An epic 5-part series on building HTML forms right.

Forms are arguably the most important parts of any web application. Without forms, we would not have sites like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Reddit, etc. However, the more I browse the web, the more I see poor implementations of forms.

In this series, we will examine the proper steps to creating forms for the web, how to think about the code we write, and considerations to make along the way.

Austin plans on turning this series into a full-blown book this year, so expect more from him in this arena very soon.

CSS css-tricks.com

Why do we still need tricks to autogrow <textareas>?

Chris Coyier:

Earlier this year I wrote a bit about autogrowing textareas and inputs. The idea was to make a <textarea> more like a <div> so it expands in height as much as it needs to in order to contain the current value. It’s almost weird there isn’t a simple native solution for this, isn’t it?

I’ll go a step further and say that this lack of a feature isn’t merely “almost weird”, it’s down right criminal. I’d love to champion this feature to the browser vendors/standards bodies, if one of y’all is willing to help me understand and navigate that process…

JS Party JS Party #147

Frontend Feud

Our much anticipated Family Feud rip-off inspired game show is finally here! Emma was joined by Nick and special guest Abenezer Abebe to form the Hypertext Assassins. KBall captained (despite never seeing Family Feud before) the DSL Destroyers with Mikeal and special guest Ali Spittel.

Holler if you want MOAR Feud and check the outro for a chance to win some JS Party swag.

HTML web.dev

It's time to lazy-load offscreen iframes!

Addy Osmani:

Native lazy-loading for images landed in Chrome 76 via the loading attribute and later came to Firefox. We are happy to share that native lazy-loading for iframes is now standardized and is also supported in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.

<iframe src="https://changelog.com" loading="lazy" width="600" height="400"></iframe>

YaS!! Lazy load all the things 💚

HTML mailgo.dev

mailgo makes `mailto` and `tel` links more useful

Instead of only triggering the default email or phone apps when selecting a mailto or tel link on your website, “mailgo” provides a modal with more options such as “Open in Gmail”, “Open in Outlook”, etc.

This will extra functionality will be less important on mobile now that Apple is letting us change our default clients in iOS 14 (so that the default app would already be set to Gmail, for example), but you may find it helpful for your users anyhow. 4.96 KB cheap.

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