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Aug 10 2021

CSS Nesting, specificity and you

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CSS Nesting, specificity and you
Native CSS nesting is coming to browsers soon. With nesting, that you might be familiar with from Sass or Less, you can greatly cut down on writing repetitive selectors. But you can also really work yourself into a corner if you’re not careful...
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News
The evaluation of front-end frameworks officially started mid 2019, as
part of the Platform Evolution program’s goal to evolve their technology
platform and development processes to empower the Wikimedia
Movement.
Articles
CSS custom properties don't work in media queries. Custom media queries could help out here but unfortunately, they're not supported yet...
How to align a button content in web fonts with large spacing above and below the text.
Is Lighthouse telling you to eliminate render-blocking resources? Learn what this means, why it's important, and how to fix it in your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
How to use Promise.allSettled() to perform parallel async operations and collect the promises statuses into an array.
"I recently got back into React since it first came out and I'm wondering all over again why someone would choose to use this library."
For beginners
CSS can be hard to grasp when you're first learning it. Here are some things that tripped Nathan up when he was getting started that he wished he knew earlier on.
Hello from the server-side
Master the art of the most powerful testing technique for Node.js: Component tests. Including super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app
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